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The  Rev.  Ezra  Stiles,  S.T.D.,  LL.D. 

President  Yale  College,  1777-1795- 
Son  of  the  Rev.  Isaac  Stiles. 
Born  in  North  Haven  Nov.  29,  1727. 
Died  in  New  Haven  May  12,  1795. 


NORTH   HAVEN 


IN  THE 


NINETEENTH  CENTURY. 


H  Memorial. 


PUBLISHED  BY  THE 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  COMMITTEE. 


COMPILED    BY 

SHELDON  B.  THORPE. 

|UNE   i,    1901. 


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INTRODUCTION. 

The  Town  of  North  Haven,  at  its  annual  meeting,  in  October, 
1897,  appointed  a  committee  to  consider  the  advisability  of  recog- 
nizing in  a  public  manner  the  arrival  of  the  twentieth  century. 
This  committee  was  chosen  as  follows: 


Robert  O.  Eaton. 

Chairman  Twentieth  Century  Committee. 

Ex-Member  General  Assembly. 

Assistant  Dairy  Commissioner  State  of  Connecticut. 


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— Joseph  E.  Bishop    (Resigned). 
— Robert  N.  Barnes. 
— Robert  O.  Eaton. 
—Sheldon  B.  Thorpe. 

Jared  B.  Bassett. 

Frederic  E.  Jacobs. 

Joseph  Pierpont. 

George  B.  Todd. 

The  following  year  they  reported  that  no  special  interest  was 
being  felt  anywhere.  The  report  was  accepted,  and  the  com- 
mittee continued. 

During  the  summer  of  1900  the  members  organized  tempo- 
rarily, adding  others  to  their  number,  until  a  working  force  of 
thirty  had  been  secured.  Permanent  organization  was  then 
effected,  and  the  sub-committees  arranged  as  follows : 

Robert  O.  Eaton,  President. 
L.  P.  Tuttle,  Secretary. 
Joseph  Pierpont,  Treasurer. 
Sheldon  B.  Thorpe,  Historian. 


SUB-COMMI 
On  Literary  Exercises. 
1  Edward  L.  Linsley, 
Edgar  A.   Hemmingway, 
L.   P.   Tuttle, 
Hobart  Blakeslee, 
George  J.  Merz. 

On   Printing   and   Publication. 
Sheldon  B.  Thorpe, 
Romanta   T.    Linsley, 
George  H.   Cooper, 
Michael  E.   Burke, 
Robert  N.   Barnes. 

On  Finance. 
Joseph    Pierpont, 
Henry  D.  Todd, 
Frank  L.  Stiles, 
A.   B.   Brockett, 
D.   Walter   Patten. 

W.   E.   Dickerman, 


TTEES. 

On  Reception  of  Guests. 
Hubert  F.   Potter, 
Clarence   N.    Frost, 
Herbert   P.   Smith, 
Dr.   R.  B.   Goodyear, 
George  B.  Todd. 

On  Music. 
Anson   B.   Clinton, 
Frederic  H.  Stiles, 
C.   D.   Robinson, 
Isaac  E.  Mansfield, 
David    L.    Clinton. 

On  Amusements  and  Parade. 
2  Solomon   F.   Linsley, 
Frederic  E.  Jacobs, 
Jared  B.  Bassett, 
N.  H.  Marks, 
W.   B.   Roberts. 


On  Collation. 


Staff  of  Ladies  and  Assistants. 


1  Died  October  18,  1900.     Succeeded  by  the  Rev.  William  Lusk. 


Died  March  13,  igci. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  5 

A  plan  was  proposed  which  provided  for  a  commemoration  of 
the  opening  of  the  century,  and  also  for  the  observance  of  an 
"Old  Home  Week,"  in  which  the  town  conld  call  home  from 
abroad  her  sons  and  daughters  for  a  reunion  which  should  be 
notable.  This  project  was  adopted  by  the  town  at  its  annual 
meeting  in  1900,  and  an  appropriation  made  to  be  used,  if 
necessary,  into  carrying  its  provisions  into  effect.  The  following 
general  outline  was  agreed  upon : 

Twentieth  Century. 

Sunday,  December  30,  1900. — Special  service  in  the  Congrega- 
tional, Episcopal  and  Baptist  Churches  at  1 1  o'clock  a.  m. 
Sermons  to  be  published  in  the  Town  Souvenir. 

Sunday  Evening,  December  30,  1900. — Praise  Service  of  Old 
Time  Music  in  Congregational  Church. 

3  Monday  Evening,  December  31,  1900. — Musical  or  Dramatic 
Entertainment  in  Memorial  Hall.     Admission. 

Monday  Evening,  December  31,  1900. — 12  o'clock  m.  Cannon 
salute  and  ringing  of  bells. 


Old  Home  Week. 

Tuesday,  June  4,  1901. — Dramatic  or  Musical  Entertainment  in 

Memorial  Hall,  in  evening.     Admission. 
Thursday,  June  6,  1901. — Public  Celebration. 

Sunrise — Salute. 

9  a.  m. — Civic  Procession. 

11  a.  m. — Historical  Address  in  Congregational  Church  and 
issue  of  Souvenir  Volume. 

12.30  p.  m. — Dinner  in  Memorial  Hall. 

2  p.  m. — Public  meeting  in  Congregational  Church. 

Sunset — Salute. 

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The  preparation  of  this  volume  was  early  determined  upon 
as  a  brief  memorial  of  the  town  at  the  close  of  the  19th  century. 


3  Postponed  to  February  15,  1901 


6  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

It  is  dedicated  to  the  coming-  generations  in  North  Haven.  If 
at  the  opening  of  the  next  century  some  of  its  copies  should  still 
be  found  in  the  homes  of  this  people,  it  will  not  have  been  issued 
in  vain.  It  is  by  no  means  the  ideal  century  record,  but  space 
and  expense  have  forbidden  a  more  extended  work,  and  much 
has  necessarily  been  omitted  of  equal  value  with  that  published. 

Its  preparation  has  been  a  work  of  pleasure,  because  of  the 
hearty  co-operation  of  all  concerned.  Its  illustrations  of  scenes 
and  buildings  are  mainly  taken  from  photographs  by  Sheldon 
B.  Thorpe,  Edward  Heaton  and  Herbert  Smith.  The  portrait 
work  is  that  of  New  Haven  artists. 

It  is  due  to  the  Hartford  Engraving  Co.,  which  has  done  the 
entire  engraving  work  of  the  volume,  to  say  that  in  strong  com- 
petition with  New  York  and  Boston  parties,  it  secured  the  con- 
tract. 

The  printing  and  binding  have  been  entrusted  to  The  Price, 
Lee  &  Adkins  Co.,  of  New  Haven,  who  have  acquitted  them- 
selves most  creditably. 

May  this  volume  prove  the  first  of  a  "century  series." 

Twentieth  Century  Committee. 
North  Haven,  Conn.,  June  i,  1901. 


Note.— The  following  changes  not  otherwise  noted  on  page  4,  were 
made  during  the  sessions  of  the  general  committee: 

Mr.  George  J.  Merz,  transferred  to  Committee  on  Reception. 
Mr.  D.  Walter  Patten,  transferred  to  Committee  on  Reception. 
Mr.    Herbert   P.    Smith,   transferred   to   Committee   on    Parade  to   fill 
vacancy  occasioned  by  death  of  S.  F.  Linsley. 

Mr.  Marcus  D.  Marks,  appointed  to  Committee  on  Finance. 


THE   GOVERNMENT 


OH    THE 


TOWN   OF  NORTH   HAVEN 


OFFICERS  ELECTED  BY  BALLOT  OCTOBER  1,   1900. 

TOWN    CLERK. 

L.   PEET  TUTTLE. 

SELECTMEN. 

D.  WALTER  PATTEN, 
CLARENCE  N.  FROST, 
ERNEST  R.  BROCKETT. 

BOARD    OF    RELIEF. 

CHARLES  H.  THORPE, 
NATHAN  H.  MARKS, 
HOBART  BLAKESLEE. 

ASSESSORS. 

LEWIS  I.  FOWLER, 
FREDERIC  E.  JACOBS. 

REGISTRARS. 

E.  D.  S.  GOODYEAR, 
LUZERNE  A.  BROCKETT. 

CONSTABLES. 

REUBEN  HARRISON, 
HENRY  F.  CORF, 
SAMUEL  BANNELL, 
WILBUR  E.   BEACH, 
CHARLES  L.  ROSE, 
ANDREW  HALLORAN, 
ALPHEUS  J.  LARKINS. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


D.  Walter  Patten. 

[See  page  133.] 


NORTH     HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


William   E.   Dickerman. 

Ex-Chairman  Republican  Town  Committee. 
Member  General  Assembly,  igot. 


L.   Peet  Tuttle. 

Town  Clerk. 


Clarence  N.  Frost. 

Selectman. 


Ernest  R.  Brocket t, 

Selectman. 


IO  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY, 

BOARD    OF    EDUCATION. 

JULIAN  W.  TUTTLE, 
GEORGE  H.  COOPER, 
O.  SHERWOOD  TODD. 

AGENTS    TOWN    DEPOSIT    FUND. 

ROBERT  W.  SMITH, 
JOSEPH  PIERPONT, 
SHELDON  B.  THORPE. 

TREASURER. 

ROMANTA  T.   LINSLEY. 

AUDITORS. 

SHELDON  B.  THORPE, 
ISAAC  E.  MANSEIELD. 

COLLECTOR    OF    TAXES. 

LEWIS  I.  FOWLER. 

GRAND   JURORS. 

GEORGE  J.  MERZ, 
PER  A.  OLSEN, 
WILLIAM  B.   ROBERTS, 
WILBUR  A.   LANE, 
LUZERNE  A.   BROCKETT, 
FREDERIC  E.  JACOBS. 


OFFICERS  APPOINTED  BY  THE  SELECTMEN. 

MEASURERS    OF    WOOD. 

JOSEPH  PIERPONT, 
WILLIAM  P.   LEETE, 
SHELDON  B.  THORPE, 
ANDREW  F.  AUSTIN. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


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Nathan  H.  Marks. 

Veteran  of  the  Civil  War. 
Member  of  Board  of  Relief. 


Lewis  I.  Fowlek. 

Tax  Collector. 
Assessor. 


HOBART    BLAKESLEE. 

Ex-Selectman. 

Member  of  Board  of  Relief. 


Frederic  E.  Jacobs. 

Ex-Selectman. 
Assessor. 


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WEIGHERS. 

MARCUS  S.   DOOLITTLE. 
DAVID  L.  CLINTON, 
GEORGE  W.   DAINS, 
FRANK  L.  STILES 

POUND    KEEPER. 

WILLIAM  H.  TODD. 

SEALER. 

FREDERIC  L.   MANSFIELD. 

GAUGERS. 

MARCUS  S.   DOOLITTLE, 
FRANK  R.  CLINTON, 
WILLARD  A.  ROBINSON. 

HAYWARDS. 

CHARLES  M.   BARNES, 
C.  H.  THORPE, 
WILSON  E.  GOODSELL. 

PACKERS. 

JARED  B.   BASSETT. 
HENRY  H.   ROBINSON. 


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R.OMANTA    T.     LlNSLEV. 
Ex-Town  Agent  and  Selectman. 
Town  Treasurer. 


George  J.  Mirz. 

W.  M.  Corinthian  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M. 

Grand  Juror. 

Station  Agent  N.  Y.,  N.  H.  &  H.  R.  R. 


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Isaac  E.  Mansfield. 

Ex-Seiectman. 

Auditor. 


William  B.  Roberts. 

Grand  Juror. 


THE   PRAISE   SERVICE. 

The  following"  order  of  exercises  for  the  Union  Praise  Service 
was  listened  to  by  one  of  the  largest  audiences  ever  assembled  in 
the  Congregational  Church.  The  other  places  of  worship  were 
closed  that  evening. 

UNION  PRAISE  SERVICE 

in  the 

Congregational  Church 

by  the 

CONG.,  EPISCOPAL  AND  BAPTIST  SOCIETIES, 

Sunday  Evening,  December  30,  1900,  at  7.30  o'clock. 

Frederic  H.  Stiles,  Director. 
A.  B.  Clinton,  Organist. 

PROGRAMME. 

Voluntary. — Instrumental. 

Invocation,  .         .         .         The  Rev.  Charles  W.  Jackson. 

Hymn   142.— "Old  Hundred." 

Devotional  Services,    .         .         The  Rev.  Louis  A.  Parsons. 

Gregorian  Chant. — "Bonum  Est."    Hymnary,  Page  501. 

Introductory,     .         .         .         The  Rev.  William  G.  Lathrop. 

Hymn  515. — "Ortonville,"  (lined  out).     Hymnary,  Page  256. 

Hymn  324. — "China." 

Hymn   125. — "Geneva." 

Hymn   129. — "Dundee."     Hymnary,  Page  65. 

Hymn  597. — "Balerma."    Hymnary,  Page  65. 

Hymn  320. — "Coronation."     Hymnary,  Page  162. 

Gloria  in  Excelsis. — Buck. 

Hymn  377.- — "Lenox."    Hymnary,  Page  189. 

Hymn  770. — "Boylston." 

Anthem  (Modern). — "Praise  Ye  The  Father."-  —Gounod. 

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It  would  be  difficult  to  say  which  selection  pleased  the  audi- 
ence best.  Each  number  was  chosen  after  careful  consideration, 
and  stood  out  distinct  in  the  progress  of  church  music.  The 
listeners  were  carried  along,  step  by  step,  from  the  simple 
Gregorian  chant  of  our  fathers  to  the  florid  music  of  the  present 
day. 

The  earlier  named  hymns  on  the  programme — "China," 
"Dundee,"  "Geneva,"  "Ortonville" — were  sung  without  accom- 


Frederic  H.  Stiles. 

.Musical  Director  and  Organist 
Congregational  Church. 

paniment.  The  latter  tune  attracted  special  attention  because  of 
its  novelty,  it  being  "lined  out,"  as  in  the  days  when  hymn  and 
tune  books  were  scarce  ;  that  is,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Lathrop  first  read 
a  line,  which  was  sung  by  the  choir,  then  another  line  read  and 
sung  until  the  hymn  was  finished.  The  words  used  were  the  well 
known  lines,  beginning: 

"Majestic  sweetness  sits  enthroned 
Upon  the  Saviour's  brow." 


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The  singing  of  the  hymn  "Coronation"  aroused  the  audience 
to  the  highest  fervor.  Along'  the  gallery-front  of  the  church  were 
displayed  in  groups  the  flags  of  the  leading  nations  of  the  world, 
and  as  the  volume  of  sound  swelled  up 

"Let  every  kindred,  every  tribe 
On  this  terrestrial  ball, 
To  Him  all  majesty  ascribe, 
And  crown  Him  Lord  of  all," 

these  colors  seemed  to  ripple  in  the  breeze  as  if  echoing  assent 
to  the  homage  of  the  King  of  Kings  and  Lord  of  Lords. 

The  drilling  of  the  large  chorus  was  done  by  Frederic  H. 
Stiles,  to  whose  taste  and  efficiency  the  service  owed  its  wonderful 
success. 


Anson  B   Clinton. 

Ex-Member  General  Assembly. 

Organist,  and  dealer  in  musical  instruments. 


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The  following-  persons  assisted : 


Anson  B.  Clinton,  Organist. 


Tenors. 
David   L.    Clinton, 
Edgar  Stiles, 
Le  Roy  Stiles, 
Frank  C.  Squires. 

Basses. 
Theophilus  Eaton, 
Edward  Heaton, 
Eugene  Prisley, 
Leslie  Munson, 
Ellsworth  Smith, 
Mr.    Sperry. 

Sopranos. 
Miss  Bessie  Ives, 
Miss  Glenna  Bigelow, 
Mrs.  Anson  B.  Clinton, 


Mrs.  Frank  North. 
Mrs.  Florence  Blakslee, 
Mrs.  A.  E.  Swift. 

Altos. 

Miss  Charlotte  Barnes, 
Airs.  Theophilus  Eaton, 
Miss   Emily  Pierce, 
Miss  Martha  Smith, 
Miss  Ruth  Smith, 
Miss  Leila  Stiles. 

Orchestra. 

H.   Wilson   Clinton, 
Isaac  E.  Mansfield, 
Dwight  Rohinson, 
Irving  Mansfield. 


SERMON 


PREACHED    IN    THE 

NORTH   HAVEN  CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH, 

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The  Rev.  William  G.  Lathrop, 
December  30,  1900,  at  11  a.  m. 

Text.      Psalm    145:4.      "One   generation   shall   laud   thy 
works  to  another,  and  shall  declare  thy  mighty  acts." 

One  hundred  years  ago  day  after  to-morrow,  the  Rev.  Ben- 
jamin Trumbull,  D.D.,  then  pastor  of  this  Church,  delivered  in 
the  old  meeting  house  upon  the  green  what  he  was  pleased  to  call 
a  century  sermon.  To-day  we  are  summoned  to  enter  into  the 
inheritance  of  the  saints,  here  to  recount  the  blessings  of  God, 
here  to  declare  his  mighty  acts  for  the  generation  following.  So 
let  us  review  briefly  the  century  which  is  closing,  a  task  altogether 
too  large  to  be  adequately  accomplished  in  the  time  at  our  dis- 
posal. 

First  let  me  speak  of  the  Church :  and  fittingly  so  of  the  oldest 
organization  in  town  (First  Ecclesiastical  Society,  organized 
1716.  First  action  recorded,  November  2,  1716.  Congregational 
Church  organized.  April  or  May,  1718.  Incorporated,  November 
29,  1897),  an  organization  which  precedes  by  68  years  the  incor- 
poration of  the  town,  and  with  only  one  companion,  the  Epis- 
copal Church,  of  course  with  the  Ecclesiastical  Societies 
connected  with  them,  the  only  local  organization  of  any  kind  that 
spans  the  entire  century.  Dr.  Trumbull  preached  his  century 
sermon  in  the  second  building  owned  by  the  Society.  It  meas- 
ured 65  feet  by  45^  and  stood  about  half  way  between  the  flag 
staff  and  the  south  line  of  the  old  burying  ground,  or  a  hundred 
and  fifty  feet  south  and  half  as  much  west  of  the  center  of  the 
green ;  about  in  front  of  the  road  which  runs  at  the  north  of  this 
building.    The  century  has  seen  the  erection  and  extension  of  the 


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Photo  by  Heaton.        CONGREGATIONAL    CHURCH    (THIRD    BUILDING). 

Erected  1835. 

brick  edifice  in  which  we  are  now  assembled,  used  for  the  first 
time,  July  1,  1835.  Its  dimensions  were  62  feet  by  45,  extended 
in  1871,  16  feet,  with  an  addition  of  18  feet  for  organ  and  choir. 
At  this  time,  too,  the  basement  was  fitted  for  the  use  of  the  Sun- 
day School.  The  chapel  formerly  used  for  a  schoolhouse,  70  feet 
south  of  this  building,  has  been  owned  by  the  Ecclesiastical 
Society  since  it  was  transferred  to  it  by  Mr.  Reynolds,  November 
26,  1892.  In  the  Spring  of  1894  the  commodious  parsonage  was 
erected  at  a  cost  with  the  land  of  $5,000.  This  meeting  house  is 
the  third  which  has  been  owned  by  the  Society ;  the  first  serving 
as  a  place  of  worship  for  21  years.  This  stood  10  rods  to  the 
north  of  the  second  edifice,  being  located  near  the  southwest 
corner  of  the  old  burying  ground.  The  second  building,  the  loca- 
tion of  which  has  been  given,  was  in  use  from  May,  1742,  til! 
June  28,  1835 — 93  years.  Undoubtedly  the  opening  century  will 
see  the  erection  of  a  fourth  meeting  house,  more  commodious,  if 
no  larger,  than  our  present  one,  this  having  served  us  for  65  and 
a  half  vears. 


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The  membership  of  the  Church  lias  fluctuated  between  quite 
wide  limits.  Ir  was  137  in  1760,  at  the  beginning  of  Dr.  Trum- 
bull's pastorate,  probably  falling  materially  below  one  hundred 
in  1820,  when  he  closed  his  work.  Under  Mr.  Boardman  and 
Dr.  Griggs  the  Church  revived  and  gained  the  strength  which  it 
has  since  never  lost.  Of  the  four  years  of  largest  accessions,  three 
fall  within  this  period.  63  in  1821,  159  in  1831,  and  130  in  1840. 


The  Rev.  William  G.  Lathrop. 

Pastor  Congregational  Church,  1893-1901. 
Resigned  April  1,  1901. 
Installed  Pastor  Congregational  Church  in 
Shelton,  Conn.,  April  4,  1901. 


To  the  quickening  of  the  life  of  the  Church  under  these  able 
leaders  we  owe  this  meeting  house.  Of  the  army,  354  strong, 
received  in  the  decade  1831-40,  only  12  remain  upon  our  roll. 
As  far  as  is  known  5  others  are  living.  These  alone  can  tell  the 
story  of  those  stirring  years.  After  the  large  additions  in  1840 
probably  the  membership  of  the  Church  reached  the  highest 
figure  in  its  history,  approaching,  if  not  exceeding.  400.    We  may 


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not  conclude,  however,  that  its  work  is  complete,  for  except  the 
decade  mentioned,  1831-40,  no  other  has  seen  a  larger  number 
received  into  the  Church  than  the  decade  just  closing ;  two  of  the 
ten  years  during  which  the  additions  have  exceeded  35  having 
fallen  within  this  period.  Of  the  years  of  special  blessing,  Mr. 
Reynolds  wrote  toward  the  close  of  his  ministry:  "Few 
Churches,  it  is  believed,  have  experienced  more  or  greater  sea- 
sons of  refreshing  than  have  been  enjoyed  by  this  Church  since 
the  beginning  of  the  century."  The  years  when  more  than  35 
were  received  are,  1821,  1831,  1840,  1837 — 39  received,  1858 — 52, 
1868 — 65,  1876 — 51,  1880 — 38,  1895 — 36,  1896 — 36.  Altogether 
there  have  been  1240  entries  of  those  received  since  1800,  of  whom 
669  were  added  in  the  ten  years  just  referred  to.  The  present 
membership  is  302.  Of  the  16  names  mentioned  by  Dr.  Trum- 
bull as  the  earliest  settlers  of  the  town,  1 1  are  still  found  upon  our 
roll ;  Barnes,  Bishop,  Blakeslee,  Bradley,  Brockett,  Cooper, 
Eaton,  Jacobs,  Thorpe,  Todd,  Tuttle.  Of  the  38  family  names 
mentioned  by  him  as  constituting  the  Church  in  1760,  18  still  are 
found  upon  our  roll ;  those  already  mentioned  and  Bassett,  Frost, 
Goodyear,  Mansfield,  Pierpont,  Sackett,  Smith. 

During  the  first  five  decades  the  number  received  varied  from 
28  in  181 1-20  to  354  in  1831-40.  In  the  last  five  decades  the 
extremes  have  been  100  in  1861-70,  and  136  in  1851-60,  and  the 
same  number  1891-1900.  The  number  received  in  the  two  half 
centuries  is  nearly  the  same,  629  the  first  half,  611  the  second. 
This  steady,  persistent,  regular  growth  of  the  later  years  is  far 
more  healthful  and  desirable  than  the  spasmodic  action  of  the 
earlier  time.  The  same  healthy  condition  appears  to  prevail  in 
the  varied  activity  of  the  Church,  no  abnormal  growth,  nor  fatal 
losses.  The  Church  has  had  an  active  and  an  honorable  part  in 
the  development  of  the  Sunday  School,  one  being  formed  here 
in  1825,  and  since  maintaining  its  activity.  Undoubtedly  much 
is  due  the  Sunday  School  for  the  more  healthful  conditions  pre- 
vailing in  these  later  years.  The  Church  has  had  since  182 1  for- 
mal connection  with  the  missionary  movement  of  the  century. 
There  are  now  connected  with  the  Church  a  Ladies'  Benevolent 
Society,  a  Sunday  School,  a  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor,  a 
Circle  of  King's  Daughters,  and  among  the  younger  members  of 
the  cone'resration  a  Circle  of  King's  Daughters  and  Sons. 


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In    the    words    of   the    able  historian  of  the  town,  Mr.  S.  B. 
Thorpe:     "One  will  search  in  vain  for  anything  startling  or  sen- 
sational in  the  history  of  this  ancient  Church.     Its  record  appears 
singularly  free  from  those  internal  dissensions  wont  to  harass  the 
early  Churches.     It  has  sought  rather  to  keep  quietly  the  faith 
of  its  founders,  than  to  found  new  faiths  for  its  followers.     The 
last  quarter  century  has  brought  about  more  changes  in  its  policy 
than  occurred  in  all  its  former  historv.     Among:  the  more  radical 
of  these  may  be  mentioned  the  recommendation  that  its  constitu- 
ency as  well  as  applicants  for  membership  abstain  from  the  use 
of  intoxicating  liquors  ;  the  privilege  granted  its  female  members 
to  vote  in  the  Church  meetings ;  the  use  of  unfermented  wine  at 
the  Lord's  Supper;  the  restriction  to  a  five  years  official  term  of 
its  deacons  (unless  re-elected) ;  and  the  abolition  of  the  afternoon 
service."  (North  Haven  Annals,  pp.  376,  377.)  To  this  catalogue 
of  Mr.  Thorpe's,  written  in  1892,  we  may  add :  the  election  of 
two  additional  deacons,  making  four  in  all,  May  15,  1895;  the 
revision    of   the    covenant    and    confession  of  faith,  January  21, 
1897,  neither  having  been  materially  changed  since  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Church  ;  the  incorporation  of  the  Church,  November 
29,   1897,  together  with  its  more  complete  organization  by  the 
adoption  of  a  full  set  of  rules  for  its  government,  December  15, 
1897;  the  adoption  of  a  new  and  more  complete    hymnal,    first 
used,  September  4,  1898 ;  and  finally  in  this  closing  year  of  the 
century  the  payment  of  the  debt  incurred  at  the  building  of  the 
parsonage. 

Thus  has  God  blessed  his  servants  as  they  have  endeavored  to 
let  their  light  shine.  Well  has  been  maintained  the  succession  of 
the  saints ;  the  family  of  God  has  been  full  of  prevailing  life  and 
power.  With  a  membership  nearly  or  quite  three  times  as  large 
as  at  the  beginning  of  the  century,  although  the  population  of  the 
town  is  less  than  twice  as  large,  with  a  plant  worth  $20,000,  four 
times  as  much  as  was  that  of  1800,  the  Church  may  surely  face 
courageously  the  opening  years  assured  that  the  Lord  Jehovah 
our  Guide  in  the  past  will  still  lead  us  in  green  pastures  and  by 
still  waters.     God  grant  it ! 

This  is  the  good  seed  of  the  kingdom  taking  root  in  this  com- 
munity, bearing  fruit  for  the  blessing  of  the  town  and  for  the  re- 


24  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

demption  of  the  world.  What  of  the  surrounding  vineyard  ?  Of 
the  town  itself  little  need  here  be  said.  It  lias  remained  through 
the  century  much  as  it  was  at  the  beginning,  largely  a  settlement 
of  farmers.  Until  recently  the  stream  of  immigration  from 
Europe  had  touched  the  town  but  lightly:  the  stream  that  has 
poured  nearly  ten  millions  upon  the  land  in  the  last  twenty  years ; 
the  stream  which  has  made  half  of  New  Haven,  three-fourths  of 
New  Britain  of  foreign  birth  or  parentage.  Now,  however,  in 
increasing  numbers  those  who  understand  how  to  live  more 
economically  are  displacing  the  native  stock  upon  the  farms 
This  change  is  likely  to  continue,  immigrants  occupying  the 
farms  in  the  outlying  districts,  with  the  residential  portions  of  the 
town  more  thickly  built. 

The  changes  which  the  nation  at  large  has  seen  in  these  stir- 
ring years  of  growth  and  of  activity  have  affected  the  life  of  the 
quieter  towns.  Many  pioneers  have  gone  from  here  to  other 
States.  The  quota  sent  to  the  War  of  '6i-'65,  the  veterans  still 
remaining  among  us,  the  knowledge  that  so  soon  we  have  repre- 
sentatives in  the  Philippines  show  that  North  Haven  has  been  in 
close  touch  with  national  movements. 

The  people  have  ever  been  here  whom  we  could  help  and  save. 
They  will  be  here.  North  Haven  is  not  a  dying  town.  For  the 
sake  of  those  who  are  coming  among  us,  for  the  sake  of  those 
who  will  come,  we  must  gird  up  our  loins,  be  faithful  and  strong. 
We  may  ponder  and  pray  how  best  to  bring  to  the  light,  how 
most  effectively  to  save  from  ignorance,  sin  and  death,  those  who 
come  to  dwell  among  us  from  other  lands,  of  other  tongues.  This 
problem  pressing  hard  upon  some  communities  will  appeal  to  us 
more  and  more  imperatively  in  the  coming  days.  Our  fathers 
in  the  name  of  God  entered  in  and  possessed  the  land.  We  must 
lead  to  the  Lamb  of  God  who  taketh  away  the  sins  of  the  world, 
for  our  own  salvation  as  well  as  for  theirs,  those  whom  we  have 
invited  to  enter  with  us  into  this  goodly  heritage. 

This  goodly  heritage !  We  cultivate  our  bit  of  a  larger  vine- 
yard. The  line  of  settlements  along  the  Atlantic  Coast  of  a  hun- 
dred years  ago  has  become  a  mighty  empire  girdling  half  the 
globe.  Dr.  Trumbull  remarked  that  the  population  of  the 
United  States  in  1800  was  six  millions,  a  liberal  estimate;  more 


NORTH  HAVEN  IN  THE  NINETEENTH  CENTURY.        25 

nearly  5,300,000.  Philadelphia  with  66,000,  and  New  York  With 
60,000  were  the  largest  and  richest  cities  on  the  Western  hemi- 
sphere, lie  ventured  a  prediction,  basing  his  calculation  upon 
the  fact  that  the  population  had  doubled  once  in  25  years,  that  in 
1900  the  population  would  be- 96,000,000.  The  increase  has  not 
been  at  the  rate  accepted  by  Dr.  Trumbull,  for  we  are  but  75,000,- 
000.  But  whatever  may  have  been  prophesied  as  to  our  growth 
in  numbers,  the  extension  of  territory  over  which  the  stars  and 
stripes  should  wave  could  not  have  been  dreamed  of.  Beginning 
the  century  with  Vermont,  Kentucky  and  Tennessee  added  to  the 
original  13  states,  embracing  only  the  territory  east  of  the  Missis- 
sippi and  north  of  Florida,  about  825,000  square  miles,  the 
national  domain  has  expanded  to  our  present  45  states,  with  the 
territories  of  Xew  Mexico,  Arizona,  Oklahoma,  and  Indian  Ter- 
ritory, with  the  District  of  Columbia,  together  with  Alaska, 
Hawaii,  the  Philippines  and  Porto  Rico,  over  3,600,000  square 
miles ;  one-fourteenth  of  the  land  surface  of  the  globe  ;  four  times 
as  large  territorially,  and  including  our  island  possessions,  15 
times  as  many  people,  as  a  hundred  years  ago. 

In  these  days  of  debate  and  conflict  over  the  latest  addition 
to  our  opportunity  and  responsibility  we  may  not  forget  that  it 
was  urged  that  Jefferson  exceeded  his  authority  in  the  purchase 
of  Louisiana,  that  Texas  was  at  first  refused  admission  into  the 
Union,  that  Daniel  Webster  is  reported  to  have  said,  apropos  of 
the  claim  to  Washington  and  Oregon,  that  if  it  would  cost  one 
penny  or  the  raising  of  his  right  hand  to  retain  this  territory  he 
would  not  authorize  the  expenditure  nor  make  the  exertion. 
There  have  been  ever  those  who  shrank  from  the  enlarged  duty 
and  the  increased  responsibility  incurred  in  these  successive  ad- 
ditions to  our  domain.  But  argue  as  we  may,  the  fact  remains 
that  thus  has  the  territory  extended  over  which  our  flag  now 
flies :  over  the  fairest  land  the  sun  shines  upon,  over  a  realm  the 
most  extended  and  best  fitted  to  sustain  a  large  and  wealthy  pop- 
ulation of  any  now  owning  one  government. 

And  with  this  growth  in  territory  and  in  population  has  come, 
too,  an  increase  in  wealth,  the  most  marvellous  the  world  has  ever 
seen,  until  now  we  are  the  richest  nation  on  the  face  of  the  globe. 
In  1800  our  national  wealth  was  estimated  at  two  thousand  mil- 


26        NORTH  HAVEN  IN  THE  NINETEENTH  CENTURY. 

lions  ;  now  it  is  a  hundred  thousand  millions,  a  gain  of  fifty-fold. 
And  the  increment  is  continuing  at  a  rate  which  is  beyond  all 
precedent.  Our  manufacturers  and  our  traders  are  levying  tri- 
bute in  growing  measure  upon  all  the  nations  of  the  earth. 

Thus  has  God  enlarged  our  borders  and  filled  the  land  with 
the  finest  of  the  wheat.  But  with  these  additions  to  our  posses- 
sions comes  increased  obligation.  To  whomsoever  much  is 
given,  of  him  shall  much  be  required.  In  accepting  the  gift  we 
declare  our  duty.  And  men,  other  nations,  are  calling  us  to 
account,  and  even  as  God,  will  hold  us  responsible.  To  hide  our 
talent  in  a  napkin  means  shame  and  loss. 

I  say  other  nations  are  holding  us  to  an  account.  When  the 
century  opened  the  colonies  were  struggling  to  their  feet.  The 
experiment  of  a  people  governing  themselves  was  looked  upon 
with  fear  and  with  suspicion.  It  took  the  second  defeat  of 
1 812-15  to  bring  England  to  some  reasonably  adequate  idea  of 
what  the  Revolutionary  War  meant.  It  was  only  after  the  Mexi- 
can War  of  1846-47  that  the  Republic  came  to  be  honored  on  its 
own  continent.  The  Civil  War  of  1861-65  revealed  to  the  world 
power  and  resource  of  which  there  had  been  little  thought. 
While  the  Spanish  War  of  1898  showed  all  the  nations  of  earth 
that  the  United  States  had  a  sufficient  reason  for  its  existence 
and  possessed  ability  of  which  no  one  had  dreamed.  From 
being  of  such  little  consequence  among  the  nations  as  to  be 
reckoned  hardly  worthy  of  a  place  among  them  at  the  beginning 
of  the  century  we  have  come  to  occupy  a  position  among  the  very 
foremost  powers,  to  take  a  place  in  the  world's  action  worthy  of 
the  most  exalted  and  strongest  peoples. 

Into  the  life  of  the  world  we  have  entered,  for  better  or  for 
worse,  for  the  blessing  of  the  world  by  means  of  the  power  God 
has  given  us,  or  for  the  condemnation  of  ourselves,  our  loss  and 
overthrow.  And  into  such  a  world  at  such  a  time !  Well  has 
Bishop  A.  C.  Coxe,  of  the  Episcopal  communion,  written  : 

"We  are  living,  we  are  dwelling 
In  a  grand  and  awful  time  ; 
In  an  age  on  ages  telling, 
To  be  living  is  sublime. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  27 

Worlds  are  charging — heaven  beholding  ; 

Thou  hast  but  an  hour  to  fight ; 
Love's  pure  banner  now  unfolding, 

On — right  onward  for  the  right. 

From  the  crimes  that  men  are  crushing, 
War's  dire  curse  and  slavery's  wrong. 

To  deliver  him,  now  rushing, 

Arm  thee  well — be  strong — be  strong. 

Fear  not !  spurn  the  wordling's  laughter  ; 

Friendship's  favor  trample  thou ; 
Thou  shalt  find  a  long  hereafter 

To  be  more  than  tempts  thee  now. 

Oh  !  let  all  the  soul  within  you, 

For  the  truth's  sake  go  abroad ! 
Strike  !  let  every  nerve  and  sinew 

Tell  on  ages — tell  for  God." 

The  sun  has  never  shone  upon  a  century  more  full  of  promise 
than  that  which  begins  the  day  after  to-morrow.  Never  before 
have  the  forces  of  the  kingdom  had  such  momentum  or  such 
power.  No  century  can  show  such  triumphs  of  the  cross  as  the 
one  just  closing.  It  has  seen  the  foreign  mission  movement 
starting  with  perhaps  7  societies,  170  missionaries,  with  an  in- 
come of  $250,000,  reach  a  maximum  of  200  organizations,  13,000 
laborers,  with  71,000  native  helpers  and  an  income  of  seventeen 
millions  ;  with  a  record  of  a  larger  number  rescued  from  the  dark- 
ness of  idolatry,  paganism  or  savagery  (1,300,000)  than  the  dis- 
ciples could  count  as  converts  at  the  close  of  the  first  century  of 
Christianity.  Under  the  auspices  of  these  consecrated  and  able 
workers  it  has  come  about  that  the  Bible,  which  in  1800  had  been 
translated  into  34  languages  and  dialects,  is  now  available  in  411 
different  tongues.  At  the  beginning  of  the  century  two  historic 
missionary  meetings  were  held:  "One  with  an  attendance  of  12 
in  Widow  Wallis'  back  parlor,  the  other  with  an  attendance  of  5 
under  the  haystack  at  Williams'  College."  Last  year  15,000 
crowded  day  after  day  for  eleven  days,  one  of  New  York's  finest 
halls  that  they  might  hear  the  latest  news  from  the  front.     At  the 


28        NORTH  HAVEN  IN  THE  NINETEENTH  CENTURY. 

beginning  of  the  century  an  honorable  Senator  in  Massachusetts' 
upper  house  opposed  the  granting  ot  a  charter  to  a  foreign  mis- 
sionary society  on  the  ground  that  we  did  not  have  enough 
religion  at  home  to  justify  the  exportation  of  any.  At  the  close 
of  the  century  our  most  honorable  statesmen,  William  McKinley, 
Grover  Cleveland,  Theodore  Roosevelt,  Benjamin  Harrison, 
offer  convincing  testimony  to  the  value  of  missionary  work,  and 
in  the  strongest  terms  urge  its  wider  extension. 

And  this  wonderful  expansion  in  mission  effort  has  been 
backed  by  a  still  more  wonderful  growth  at  home.  In  1800, 
365,000  Protestant  evangelical  communicants  were  enrolled  in 
the  United  States;  now  the  number  is  17,800,000.  Besides  these 
there  are  10,000,000  Romanists  and  1,000,000  Jews  and  others. 
Here  is  an  increase  of  fifty-fold  in  evangelical  membership,  while 
the  population  has  increased  but  fourteen  times.  The  ratio  of 
communicants  to  population  has  increased  from  1  in  14^  in  1800 
to  1  in  4:}  in  1900 — this  of  the  evangelical  Protestants  alone. 

This  gain  has  been  well  sustained  even  to  the  century's  close. 
The  number  of  additions  to  the  various  Churches  the  last  decade 
is  the  largest  of  any  of  our  history,  approximating  4,000,000. 
And  this  increase,  too,  has  been  faster  than  the  increase  of  popu- 
lation ;  the  ratio  having  increased  from  100  communicants  in  453 
in  1890,  to  100  communicants  in  428  in  1900.  In  the  last  two 
decades  the  number  of  Protestant  Churches  has  increased  from 
97,000  to  172,000,  the  number  of  ministers  from  70,000  to  126,- 
000,  the  number  of  communicants  from  10,000,000  to  nearly 
18,000,000. 

And  this  is  no  empty  array  of  figures.  The  gain  on  the  part 
of  the  Church  is  more  than  nominal.  The  story  of  the  religious 
movements  of  the  century,  of  the  development  of  the  Sunday 
School,  of  the  Young  Men's  and  Young  Women's  Christian  As- 
sociations, of  the  Christian  Endeavor  Society,  Epworth  League 
and  kindred  organizations  of  the  young  people,  the  planting  and 
the  strengthening  of  our  magnificent  educational  institutions,  our 
rescue  agencies,  hospitals  and  asylums,  the  widening  and  the 
deepening  of  the  temperance  movement — these  all  derive  their 
strength  from  and  prove  the  vitality  of  the  Christian  faith.  It  is 
admitted  to-day  by  many  of  those  best  fitted  to  judge,  that  while 


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cleanliness  of  body,  mind  and  of  estate  may  be  next  to  godliness, 
it  comes  next  after,  not  necessarily  leading  up  to  it.  When  a 
man  is  redeemed  he  is  reformed.  Individual  salvation  must  pre- 
cede effective  and  enduring-  social  betterment. 

Looking  again,  it  may  be  noted  that  the  amounts  contributed 
for  educational  and  benevolent  purposes  surpass  all  precedent. 
The  total  for  '97  was  $42,000,000  ;  for  98,  $38,000,000 ;  for  '99, 
$63,000,000 ;  and  for  1900  the  figures  of  last  year  will  be  ex- 
ceeded, and  the  total  will  reach  the  highest  sum  ever  recorded. 
This  increase  in  gifts  has  far  outrun  the  increase  in  wealth.  In- 
cluding the  home  expenses  of  the  Protestant  Churches  alone, 
$90,000,000,  the  total  offerings  for  charitable,  educational  and 
benevolent  purposes  will  approximate  $200,000,000,  an  increase 
of  a  hundred-fold  over  the  offerings  of  a  century  ago ;  while  the 
national  wealth  has  increased  but  fifty-fold. 

Dr.  Daniel  Dorchester,  our  widely  known  and  reliable  relig- 
ious statistician, has  recently  said :  "There  has  never  been  so  much 
conscience,  on  so  many  subjects  and  among  so  many  people  as 
now.  Public  conscience  prohibits  more  evils  and  enforces  more 
obligations  than  ever  before.  No  intelligent  person  standing  in 
the  light  of  the  nineteenth  century  and  beholding  the  great  relig- 
ious movements  of  the  age  can  doubt  that  Christianity  is  advanc- 
ing. Every  year  it  is  robing  itself  with  more  effulgence  and 
pressing  its  blessed  illumination  upon  new  millions  of  earth's 
population." 

At  the  beginning  of  the  century  science  and  religion  pursued 
parallel  ways,  mutually  suspicious  of  each  other.  Then  came  a 
period  of  attack  and  conflict,  each  against  the  other,  criticism  and 
opposition.  Now  the  end  is  near,  the  day  of  synthesis,  of  con- 
struction, of  positive  upbuilding  and  advance  to  a  larger,  saner, 
truer  conception  of  God  and  of  the  universe.  It  is  seen  more  and 
more  clearly  that  God's  revelation  of  himself  in  act  and  in  word 
go  hand  in  hand  ;  only  as  science  and  religion  work  together  can 
a  complete  or  a  satisfactory  conception  of  the  universe  be  ob- 
tained. Men  have  learned  that  in  picking  a  flower  to  pieces  the 
flower  itself  is  destroyed  and  its  beauty  and  fragrance  disappear. 
Criticism,  negation,  never  can  reach  the  stars  or  understand  a 
universe.  Aftei  the  stupendous  achievements  of  the  century 
men  are  returning:  or  thev  must  return  to  the  thought  of  old 


30        NORTH  HAVEN  IN  THE  NINETEENTH  CENTURY. 

when  painters  and  sculptors  prayed  as  they  worked,  when  the 
monks  were  chemists  and  mathematicians  and  astronomers,  when 
it  was  known  and  confessed  of  all  that  only  the  pure  in  heart 
could  read  God's  thoughts  after  him. 

In  the  larger  movements  of  the  life  and  thought  of  the  cen- 
tury we  may  find  signs  of  largest  promise.  Man  has  drawn 
nearer  his  fellow.  Space  has  been  annihilated.  In  1800  it  took 
8  weeks  to  cross  the  Atlantic  in  a  sailing  vessel.  Now  one  can 
go  from  New  York  to  Liverpool  in  6  days.  It  took  five  months, 
from  October  3,  1842,  to  March  3,  1843,  f°r  Marcus  Whitman 
to  ride  from  the  Columbia  River  to  Washington  to  save  the 
Pacific  Northwest  to  the  Union.  Now  one  can  go  from  Boston 
to  Seattle  in  5  days.  San  Francisco  is  nearer  New  York  than 
Boston  was  to  Philadelphia.  It  took  three  days  at  utmost  speed 
in  1 81 5  to  carry  the  news  of  Waterloo  to  London.  The  guns 
of  Dewey's  fleet  in  the  harbor  of  Manila  were  hardly  cool  before 
the  result  of  the  battle  was  known  all  over  our  land.  Thus  have 
the  people  of  China,  thus  have  the  savages  of  the  islands  of  the 
sea  become  our  near  neighbors. 

And  as  we  have  looked  into  the  face  even  of  savage  and  of 
barbarian  we  have  discovered  there  the  marks  of  a  common 
humanity,  the  image  of  a  common  Father.  From  this  recogni- 
tion has  come  the  end  of  slavery  generally  countenanced  a  hun- 
dred years  ago ;  from  this  has  dawned  a  larger  liberty  between 
man  and  man.  We  have  come  to  think  of  other  men  even  as 
they  are  as  brothers,  and  to  treat  them  so.  The  standing  wrong 
of  all  the  past  centuries  has  been  overcome  and  it  is  seen  that 
governments  exist  for  the  sake  of  the  governed,  that  rulers  can- 
not safely  oppress  their  subjects,  that  one  nation  cannot  right- 
fully oppress  another.  But  it  remained  for  the  closing  years  of 
the  century  to  witness  the  largest  fulfillment  the  world  has  yet 
known  of  the  prophetic  song  of  the  angels  at  our  Saviour's  birth 
— Peace,  peace,  peace  on  the  earth.  A  movement  has  now 
fairly  begun  which  contains  the  promise  of  the  day  when  nation 
shall  not  lift  up  sword  against  nation,  neither  shall  they  learn 
war  any  more.  When  the  leading  peoples  of  earth  met  at  The 
Hague,  May  18,  1899,  to  devise  ways  and  means  of  bringing  in  a 
reign  of  equity  and  peace,  the  movement  began  which  shall  see 
the  swords  beaten  into  plowshares  and  spears  into  pruning  hooks. 


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For  the  privilege  of  seeing  the  words  of  Psalmist  reversed  and 
the  kings  of  the  earth  setting  themselves,  the  rulers  taking  coun- 
sel together  that  our  daily  prayer  may  he  answered,  that  his  king- 
dom may  come,  that  his  will  may  be  done  on  earth  even  as  it  is 
done  in  heaven  ;  for  this  we  may  well  lift  up  our  hearts  and  voices 
in  gratitude  and  praise.  This  the  crowning  act  of  the  century, 
its  most  spectacular  and  momentous  achievement,  is  the  most 
realistic  and  impressive  action  since  Jesus  was  horn  in  Bethlehem 
of  Judea,  certifying  to  the  brotherhood  of  man  and  the  supremacy 
of  the  law  of  love. 

It  is  for  us  to  note  in  this  and  in  the  other  events  of  the  cen- 
tury the  way  the  Lord  directs,  the  path  in  which  He  would  have 
us  go,  and  like  Israel  of  old  it  is  for  us  to  follow  the  pillar  of 
cloud  by  day  and  the  pillar  of  fire  by  night,  His  manifest  provi- 
dence, assured  that  even  though  the  way  leads  through  the  wil- 
derness, the  end  of  faithful  following,  of  consecrated  service  is  the 
promised  land,  is  an  open  and  an  abundant  entrance  into  the  rest 
and  iov  of  our  Lord. 


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CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH; 

JANUARY   i,    1901. 


Pastor. 
William  G.  Lathrop. 

Deacons. 


Albert  A.  Hyde,       1895-1903 
Robert  N.  Barnes,    1895-1904 


F.  H.  Brockett, 
Aaron  Bassett. 


1895-1902 
1900-1905 


Clerk  and  Treasurer. 
F.  H.  Brockett,   1900-1902. 

Names  included  within  brace  are  those  of  husband  and  wife. 
Names  in  italics  indicate  maiden  name  of  woman. 


A 

Augur,  Margaret  E.  Barnes 
Austin,  Andrew  F.  / 

Austin,  Charlotte  P.  Stiles  \ 

B 

Bailey,  Sarah  Elizabeth  Smith 
Barnard,  Bertha  J. 
Barnes,  Charlotte  L. 
Barnes,  Lina  Genevieve 
Barnes,  Lucia  M.  Bower 
Barnes,  Ella  J.  Shares 
Barrett,  John  B.  ) 

Barrett,  Adella  A.  Clough  \ 
Bassett,  Adeline  J.  Blakeslee 
Bassett,  Elizabeth  A.  Brockett 
Bassett,  George  Eli  | 

Bassett,  Mary  Louise  Bradley  ) 
Bassett,  Jared  B. 


Bassett,  Joel  E.  | 

Bassett,  Julia  C.  Thorpe  > 
Bassett,  Lorenzo  N. 
Bassett,  Lyman 
Bassett,  Lyman  F.  ) 

Bassett,  Emily  J.  Pierpont  ) 
Bassett,  Mary  E. 
Beach,  Caroline  C.  Jones 
Beach,  Celona  E. 
Beach,  Joel  E.  W.  > 

Beach,  Elsie  D.  Bawm  ) 
Beach,  Wilbur  E.  > 

Beach,  Kate   Maria  Hillyer  ) 
Bishop,  Ann  E.  Childs 
Bishop,  Charlotte  Thorpe. 
Blakeslee,  Henry  Merwin  ) 

Blakeslee,  Cornelia  A.  Andrews  ) 
Blakeslee,  Theodore  M. 
Blakeslee,  Wilbur  D.  > 

Blakeslee,  Mary  Alice  Maynard  ) 


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Albert  A.  Hyde. 

Veteran  of  the  Civil  War. 
Deacon,  Congregational  Church. 


Frederic  H.  Brockett. 

Cleric  and  Treasurer  Congregational  Church. 
Deacon,  Congregational  Church. 


Robert  N,  Barnes. 

Undertaker. 

Deacon   Congregational  Church. 


Aaron  Bassett. 

Descendant  of  William  Bassett, 

New  Haven  Colony,  1642. 
Deacon,  Congregational  Church. 


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Blakeslee,  Zerah  T.  | 

Blakeslee,  Eliza  A    Tattle  S 
Bower,  Stephen  II.  \ 

Bower.  Caroline  Osman    \ 
Bradley,  Anna  Rowe 
Bradley,  Clara  Edith 
Bradlev,  Frederic  C.  ) 

Bradley,   Ellen  A.  Marks  ) 
Brockett,  Albert  B. 
Brockett,  Emma  J. 
Brockett,  Charlotte  T.  Bishop 
Brockett,  Jennie  Louise 
Brockett,  Susan  C.  Heaton 
Bruce,  Annie  B. 
Bruce,  Christine 
Bruce,  Edward  B. 
Bruce,    Christine  Kilgi 
Bruce,  Jennie  Maud 
Bruce,  Sarah  J.  Lounsbury 


srard  B.  ) 

"istine  Kilgour  ) 


c 

Clinton,  Burton  D. 
Clinton,  David  L.  ) 

Clinton,  Fannie  M.   Vibbert) 
Clinton.  Lucy  A.  Bishop 
Connley,  John  ) 

Connley,  Martha  Saunders  \ 
Connley.  Sarah  M 
Cooper,  George  H.       > 
Cooper,  Bessie  L.  Coe) 
Cooper,   Homer  L.  \ 

Cooper,  Alice  E.  Monson  \ 
Cooper,  Marilla  M. 
Cooper,  Sarah  J.   White 
Cooper,  Warren 
Crowell,  Franklin  N.  \ 

Crowell,  Maria  A.  Beers  ) 

D 

Desmond,  Charles  A. 
Desmond,  Mary  H. 
Desmond,  Ralph  O.  ) 

Desmond,   K.    E.  Marihugh  ) 
Dickerman,  Robert  E. 
Dickerman,  Sarah  E.  B. 
Dickerman,  William  E.      j 
Dickerman,  Lillian  Snow  \ 


Doolittle,  Isaac  L.  ) 

Doolittle,   Emily  A.  Smith  S 
Doolittle,  Nellie  P.  Clark 
Dunham,  John  J.  / 

Dunham,  Grace  Mae  Thomas  S 

E 

Eaton,  Robert  O.  ) 

Eaton,  Alice  Granniss  ) 
Eaton,  Jesse  O 
Eaton,  Theophilus 
Eliot,  Mary  Wyllys 
Elliott,  Whitney  | 

Elliott,    Emma  Benton  ) 


Foote,  Cullen  B.  ) 

Foote,  Nancy  M.  Adams  I 
Fowler,  Bessie  T. 
Fowler,  Delia  E.  Clinton 
Fowler,  Edward  D. 
Fowler,  Herbert  I. 
Fowler,  Lewis  I.  ) 

Fowler,  Marthena  A.   Thorpe  S 
Frost,  Elinor  A.  Crowell. 
Frost,  Fannie  E    Robinson 
Frost,  Grace  I.  Scranton 
Frost,  J.  Henry  ) 

Frost,  Adeline  Pierpont  f 

G 

Gillette,  Mary  E.  Brockett 
Goodsell,  Jesse  B.  / 

Goodsell,  Charry  E.  Tucker  i 
Goodsell,  Wilson  E.         ) 
Goodsell,  Fannie  Beach) 
Goodyear,  Julia  Marks 
Goodyear,  Robert  B. 

H 

Heaton,  Julius  W.  | 

Heaton,  Olivia  Tins  lev  > 
Hemingway,  Edward  M.  j 

Hemingway,  Lucy  A.  Brockett  S 
Hemingway,  Frank  W.  \ 

Hemingway,  Elfrida  B.  Heaton  f 
Hemingway,  Genevieve 


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Hemingway,  Laura  J. 
Hemingway,  Willis  B. 
Hemingway,  Betsey  B    Huntley 
Howarth,  Ellen  C.  Bradley 
Howarth,  Gertrude  L. 
Hyde,  Ella  R    Hall 
Hyde,  Lyman  Munson         ) 
Hyde,  Elizabeth  G.   Hyde  ) 
Hyde,  William  Albert 


J 


Jacobs,  Dora  E. 
Jacobs,  Jesse  B. 
Jacobs,  Maria  E.  Mansfield 

L 

Lane,  Wilbur  A. 
Lathrop,  William  G.       | 
Lathrop,  Helen  Sfiicer  ) 
Leete,  Mary  E.  Isbell 


Lehane,  Jeremiah 
Linsley,  Solomon  F.  J 

Linsley,    Lucy  A.  Tracy  ) 
Lloyd,  Mary  Jane 

M 

Maginnes,  Caroline  Tuttle 
Mansfield,  Fannie  A.  Birch 
Mansfield,  Frederick  L. 
Mansfield,  Robert  S. 
Mansfield,  Zenas  W. 
Mansfield,  Mary  P.  Bradley 
Marihugh,  Emma  G. 
Marks,  Julia  A.  Eaton 
Marks,  Martha  A.  Cooper 
Merrick,  Adeline  R.  Brocket 7 
Merz,  George  J.  \ 

Merz,  Adelaide  Hartley  S 
Miller,  August  B 
Mix,  Sarah  Glover 


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Photo  in  189i. 

Residence  of  L.  Peet  Tuttle  and  Kate  L.  Tuttle. 

Built  in  1837  as  a  Parsonage  for  the  Rev.  Leverett  Griggs,  Pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church. 


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Morse,  Grace  E. 

Morse,  Herbert  H.  \ 

Morse,  Josephine  M.  Sturges  \ 

Morse,  May  H.  Mix 

Man  son,  Ezra  G.  ) 

Munson,  Lilla  B   Andrews  S 

Munson,  James  F.  ) 

Munson,  Hattie  Bishop  \ 

N 
Nettleton,  Edwin  ) 

Nettleton,  Mary  Ann  Leete  ) 
Nichols,  Ellen  H.  Smith 
North,  Frank  B.  ) 

North,  Meta  E.  Unger  ) 

o 

Orcutt,  Payson  B.  ) 

Orcutt,  Ellen  A.  Linsley  S 


l.  Pag-e ) 


Page.  Sophronia  Leete 

Painter,  Henry  W.  ) 

Painter,  Alice  F.  Lord) 

Palmer,  Elizur  H. 

Palmer,  Emma  A.  + 

Pardee,  George  W.  \ 

Pardee,  Emeline  Jane  BlakesleeS 

Patten,  Mary  B.  Hyde 

Patten,  Marion  T. 

Patten,  D.  Walter  \ 

Patten,  Erminie  I.  Emley) 

R 

Redfield,  Charles 
Reynolds.  Annie  M. 
Reynolds,  Carrie  E.  Butterworth 
Richardson,  Ervin  H. 
Richardson,  Mary  I 
Richardson,  Sarah  M.  Smith 
Riker,  Emma  B.  Smith 
Roberts,  Benjamin  H.  \ 

Roberts,  Eliza  H.  Douglass  f 
Roberts,  Eva  J. 
Roberts,  William  B.  ) 

Roberts,  Emma  N.    Butler  S 
Rose,  Lettie  A.  Doolittle 


S 

Sackett,  Delia  M.   Young 
Scott,  Frances  A.  Todd 
Sexton,  Walter  M. 
Shepherd,  Roswell  J.  > 

Shepherd,  Louise  M.  Linsley \ 
Sherwood,  Clarence  B.  \ 

Sherwood,  Grace  L.   Vibbert  \ 
Smith,  Ada  I.  Goodyear 
Smith,  Catharine  A. 
Smith,  Charles  B. 
Smith,  Edith  B. 
Smith,  Emanuel  ) 

Smith,  Alice  V.  Warner  \ 
Smith,  Frances  E.  Brockett 
Smith,  Frank  L.  \ 

Smith,  Martha   L.  Culver  ) 
Smith,  Grace  A.  Todd 
Smith,  Hattie  M. 
Smith,  James  Elton 
Smith,  Oscar  L. 
Smith,  Robert  W.  ) 

Smith,  Elizabeth  H.  B.  Stiles  > 
Smith,  Ruth 
Smith,  Sarah  Atwater 
Smith,  Sarah  Maria  Neat 
Smith,  William  Hart         ) 
Smith,  Edith  C.   Vibbert  \ 
Squires,  Bertha  J.  Bannell 
Squires,  Cornelia  M.  Thorpe 
Stevens,  Edwin  B.  ) 

Stevens,  Gertrude  L.  Clinton  ) 
Stevens,  Mariett  Richards 
Stevens,  William  W.  \ 

Stevens,  Blanche  L.  Clinton  ) 


Thorpe,  Arthur  B.  ) 

Thorpe,  Mabel  A  Howarth  S 
Thorpe,  Charles  H. 
Thorpe,  Hannah  C.  Lewis 
Thorpe,  Elmina  Bassett 
Thorpe,  Franklin  S.  i 

Thorpe,  Catharine  A  Hovey  f 
Thorpe,  Georgiana  L.  Robitison 
Thorpe,  Gertrude  L. 


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Thorpe,  Harriette  L. 
Thorpe,  Martha  Smith 
Thorpe,  Mary  Ann 
Thorpe,  Ruby  V. 
Thorpe,  Sheldon  B.  ) 

Thorpe,  Isabel  J.  Barnes  ) 
Thorpe,  Walter  F 
Todd,  Elizabeth  M.  Gill 
Todd,  George  B.  j 

Todd,  Lillian  W.  Patten  S 
Todd,  George  H. 
Todd,  George  Henry      } 
Todd,  Lydia  Chapman  ) 
Todd,  Henry  D. 
Todd,  John  Hay  den  ) 

Todd,  Josephine  C.  Cheney  S 
Todd,  Louisa  Jacobs 
Todd,  Sereno  B.  J 

Todd,  Letitia  N.    Wiley  I 
Todd,  William  H. 
Turner,  Charles  N.  \ 

Turner,  Ellen  A.  Barnes  ) 
Tuttle,  Ella 


Tuttle,  Emerett  L. 

Tuttle,  Emma  J. 

Tuttle,  Esther  E. 

Tuttle,  Harriet  Basselt 

Tuttle,  Ina  Gertrude 

Tuttle,  Julian  W.  > 

Tuttle,  Charlotte  E.  BlakesleeS 

Tuttle,  Kate  L. 

Tuttle,  Leander  Peet  ) 

Tuttle,  Emma  G.  Hurlburt  ) 

Tuttle,  Louisa  Maginnes 

Tuttle,  Martha  A.  Judson 

Tyler.  Jane  E.  Hull 

V 

Van  Doren,  William  J. 
Vibbert,  Margaret  L.  Clinton 
Vibbert,  Stephen  S.  \ 

Vibbert,  Mary  Louise  Smith) 

w 

Warner,  May  J.    Tuttle 
Welch,  May 


Parsonage  of  the  First  Ecclesiastical  Society. 


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NON  RESIDENT. 


.! 


Alger,  Edith  Goodyear 

Barnes,  John  F. 

Barnes,  Grace  A.  Blakeslee 

Barrett,  Leon  J.  \ 

Barrett,  Martha  S.  Hyde  ) 

Burnham,  Harriette  A. 

Davis,  Esther  Jacobs 

Dowd,  Merritt  C. 

Hill,  Mary  Clarissa  Hyde 

Jacobs.  Harriet  Ann  Lincoln 

Lawrence,  Harriet  D.  Andrews 

Maynard,  Nellie  M. 

Owen,  William  M. 

Pierpont,  Byard  A.  \ 

Pierpont,  Sarah  A.  Fresco tf  \ 


Robinson.  H.  Burdette 
Smith,  Fannie  B.  Richardson 
Smith,  Mary  A.  Rogers 
Thorpe,  Clifford  B." 
Thorpe,  Henry  L.  ) 

Thorpe,  Minnie  E.  ToddS 
Tuttle,  Frances  C. 
Van  Doren,  Emily  M.  Roberts 
Wright,  Harriet  A.  Palmer 


SUMMARY 


Males, 
Females, 


Total, 


114 
190 

304 


YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  SOCIETY  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR. 

Organized  April  7,  1885. 
The  Rev.  William  G.  Lathrop,  President. 
Miss  In  a  Gertrude  Tuttle,  Sccrctarv  and  Treasurer. 


Actiz'c  Members. 

Barnard,  Miss    Bertha  J. 
Bassett,  Mrs.   George  E. 
Bormann,  Miss  Ottillie  M. 
Bradley,  Miss  Clara  E. 
Brnce,  Miss  Christine 
Bruce,   Miss  Jennie   M. 
Eliot,   Miss   Mary  W. 
Gunn,  Edward 
Howarth,  Miss  Gertrude 
Hyde,  Mrs.  Albert  A. 
Hyde,  William  A. 
Jacobs,  Miss  Dora  C. 
Lane,   Edmund 
Leete,  Miss  Harriet  L. 
Marihugh,  Miss  Emma  G. 
Maynard,  Miss  Nellie  M. 
Morse,  Miss  Grace  E. 
Roberts,  William  B. 
Roberts,  Mrs.  William  B. 


Roberts,  Miss  Eva  J. 
Smith,   Miss   Edith  B. 
Smith,   Miss   Ruth 
Smith,    George 
Squires,  Mrs.   Frank  C. 
Stiles,  Miss  Clifford  R. 
Thorpe,  Arthur  B. 
Thorpe,  Mrs.  Arthur  B. 
Thorpe,  Miss  Harriette  L. 
Thorpe,    Miss   Ruby   V. 

Associate  Members. 

Blakeslee,  George  D. 
Howarth,  Raymond 
Hyde,    Everett   H. 
Lane,   Walter 
Leete,  George  H. 
Roberts,    Miss   Carrie 
Smith,  Cullen 
Smith,   Mrs.  Alex.   B. 


4° 


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LADIES'  BENEVOLENT  SOCIETY  OF  THE  CONGRE- 

TIONAL  CHURCH. 

Organized    1821. 

Mrs.  Henry  M.  Blakeslee,  President. 

Miss  Mary  Wyllys  Eliot,  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 


Barrett,  Mrs.  John  H. 
Barnes,  Mrs.  Robert  N. 
Bassett,  Mrs.  Aaron 
Bassett,  Mrs.   George  E. 
Bassett,  Mrs.  Joel  E. 
Bishop,  Mrs.  Ann   E. 
Blakeslee,  Mrs.  Zera  T. 
Bower,  Mrs.  Stephen  H. 
Bradley,  Mrs.  Frederic  C. 
Brockett,   Mrs.    Frederic  H. 
Clinton,  Mrs.   David   L. 
Cooper,  Mrs.  George  H. 
Doolittle,   Mrs.   Isaac   L. 
Elliott,  Mrs.  Whitney 
Foote,  Mrs.  Cullen  B. 
Fowler,  Mrs.  Lewis  I. 
Fowler,  Mrs.  Willoughby  E. 
Heaton,  Mrs.  Julius  W. 
Hemingway,  Mrs.  Edward  M. 
Lathrop,  Mrs.  William  G. 
Lawrence,   Mrs.   Orrin 
Linsley,  Mrs.  Solomon  F. 
Maginnis,  Mrs.  George  B. 


Merz,  Mrs.  George  J. 
Mnnson,   Mrs.   Ezra   G. 
Nichols,   Mrs.   Ellen   H. 
Orcutt,  Mrs.  Payson  B. 
Reynolds,  Mrs.  John  F. 
Scott,  Mrs.  Frances 
Shepherd,  Mrs.  Roswell  J. 
Smith,   Miss   Catherine 
Smith,   Mrs.    Grace   T. 
Smith,   Mrs.  Robert  W. 
Smith,  Mrs.  Sarah  N. 
Stevens,  Mrs.  Mariette 
Squires,   Mrs.   Cornelia 
Thorpe,   Mrs.   Elmina 
Thorpe.  Mrs.  Martha  L. 
Thorpe,  Mrs.   Georgianna  L. 
Thorpe,  Mrs.  Sheldon  B. 
Todd,   Mrs.   Elizabeth 
Turner,   Mrs.   Charles  N. 
Tuttle,    Mrs.  Harriett 
Tuttle,   Miss   Emerette   L. 
Tuttle,   Miss   Kate   L. 


KING'S  DAUGHTERS,  MIZPAH  CIRCLE. 
Organized  1893. 
Mrs.  William  G.  Lathrop,  Leader. 
Miss  Clara  E.  Bradley,  Secretary. 
Mrs.  Georgianna  L.  Thorpe,  Treasurer. 


Augur,  Mrs.  Margaret  E. 
Barnes,  Miss  Charlotte 
Barnes,  Miss  Genevieve 
Barnes,  Mrs.  Robert   N. 
Bassett,  Mrs.  Benjamin  S. 
Bidwell,  Mrs.  E.  H. 


Bishop,   Mrs.   Ann   E. 
Blakeslee,   Miss   Elizabeth 
Blakeslee,   Mrs.   Frederic   W. 
Blakeslee,   Mrs.    Henry   M. 
Cooper,  Mrs.  Homer  L. 
Dickerman,  Mrs.  William  E. 


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Dickerman,  Miss  Sarah  E.  B. 
Doolittle,   Mrs.   Isaac   L. 
Eaton,  Miss  Cora  A. 
Eaton,   Airs.   Robert  O. 
Fowler.    Miss    Bessie 
Frost,   Mrs.   Clarence   N. 
Gillette.   Mrs.    Merton 
Goodsell,   Mrs.   Wilson   E. 
Heaton,  Mrs.  Julius  W. 
Hemingway,  Mrs.  Edgar 
Hemingway,  Mrs.  Frank  W. 
Hemingway.   Miss  Genevieve 
Howarth,    Miss   Gertrude    L. 
Jacobs.  Miss  Jane  A. 
Lawrence.  Mrs.  Orrin  C. 
Linsley.    Mrs.    Grace   M. 
Mansfield.  Mrs.  Zenas  W. 
Marks,  Mrs.  Nathan  H. 
Merz,   Mrs.   George  J. 
Morse.  Mrs.  Herbert  H. 
Munson,    Mrs.    Ezra   G. 
Munson,  Mrs.  James  F. 
Nichols,   Mrs.   Ellen   H. 
Orcutt,   Mrs.    Payson   B. 
Reynolds,   Mrs.   John   F. 
Richardson,   Miss  Minnie   I. 
Shepherd,  Miss  Esther 
Shepherd.  Miss  Marguerite 
Shepherd.    Mrs.    Roswell  J. 
Sherwood,   Airs.   Clarence   B. 
Smith,  Miss  Edith   B. 
Smith,   Mrs.    Frank   L. 
Smith,   Miss   Catherine 
Stevens,  Mrs.  William  W. 


Squires,   Mrs.  Cornelia 
Squires,  Mrs.  Frank  C. 
Thorpe,  Mrs.  Arthur  B. 
Thorpe,    Miss  Harriette 
Thorpe,  Mrs.  Sheldon  B. 
Turner,    Mrs.    Charles    N. 
Tuttle,    Miss    Ina    G. 
Tuttle.  Mrs.  Julian  W. 
Tuttle.   Miss   May 


Mrs.  William  G.  Lathrop. 


HAPPY  HOUR  CIRCLE    OF  KING'S  DAUGHTERS 

AND  SONS. 

Marguerite  Shepherd,  Leader. 

Grace  A.  Dickerman,  Secretary. 

Borghia,    Ernest  Munson,   Charlotte 

Borghia,  Joseph  Nichols,  Ralph 

Hyde,  Florence  North,  Elsie 

Lathrop,   Henry  Reynolds.   Marion 

Mansfield.  Ethel  Shepherd,   Esther 

Mansfield,  Genevieve  Sweet,  Archie 


ORDER  OF  SERVICE  AND  SERMON 


AT 


UNION  BAPTIST  CHURCH 

MONTOWESE,  DECEMBER  50,   1900. 


ORDER  OF  SERVICE. 

Orchestra  Music. 

Invocation. 

Responsive  Reading. — Ps.  45. 

Anthem. — "Our  Nation,  O  Lord." 

Scripture  Reading. — Mk.  IV. 

Prayer. 

Hymn  502. — "How  firm  a  foundation." 

Announcements. 

Sermon. 

Hymn  517. — "The  Church's  one  foundation.' 

Benediction. 


Sermon  preached  in  Union  Baptist  Church,  Montowese,  De- 
cember 30,  1900,  by  the  Rev.  Charles  W.  Jackson. 

So  is  the  Kingdom  of  God,  as  if  a  man  should  cast 
seed  upon  the  earth;  and  should  sleep  and  rise  night  and 
day  and  the  seed  should  spring  up  and  grow,  he  knoweth 
not  how.  The  earth  beareth  fruit  of  herself;  first  the  blade, 
then  the  ear,  then  the  full  corn  in  the  ear. — Mk.  IV.  26  28. 

In  uttering  a  parable  like  this,  Jesus  did  not  mean  to  teach 
that  men  have  nothing  whatever  to  do  in  the  way  of  promoting 
growth  in  themselves  and  others.  He  would  not  so  encourage 
men  in  the  vices  of  indolence,  indifference  and  thoughtless 
security  to  which  they  are  prone.  But  why  speak  a  parable  which 
even  seems  to  look  that  wav?    It  would  seem  that  it  was  to  check 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  43 

vices  of  a  different  description  to  which  some  men  are  prone. 
Active,  devoted  laborers  are  tempted  to  exaggerate  their  own 
importance  as  instruments.  They  are  apt  in  a  busy-body  spirit 
to  interfere  when  it  were  wiser  to  stand  still  and  see  God  work ; 
they  are  prone,  too,  to  despondency  if  they  see  not  immediate 
results ;  and  to  impatience  when  they  discover  how  slowly  growth 
in  the  Kingdom  goes  on  toward  its  final  consummation. 


The  Rev.  Charles  W.  Jackson. 

_        Pastor  Union  Baptist  Church. 

This  despondence  and  impatience  are  decidedly  present 
to-day,  and  I  am  glad  of  the  occasion  which  the  opening  of  the 
twentieth  century  affords  for  emphasizing  the  growth  of  Chris- 
tianity or  the  Kingdom  of  God  during  the  last  one  hundred  years. 
And  I  am  also  grateful  to  the  Celebration  Committee  for  the 
prominence  which  they  are  giving  to  the  religious  element  in  the 
development  of  the  century. 

It  is  our  purpose  this  morning  to  touch  but  superficially  and 
of  necessity  in  so  short  a  time,  most  briefly  some  of  these  features 
of  Christian  development. 


44  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

I  cannot  see  how  it  could  ever  be  doubted  that  it  has  been  a 
century  of  spiritual  and  religious  growth.  To  become  confirmed 
in  this  opinion  one  has  only  to  step  back  into  the  chilly  atmos- 
phere of  the  eighteenth  century  and  view  its  stagnant  life.  The 
warmth  and  fervor  of  the  Reformation  had  departed,  and  religion 
had  sunk  into  the  icy  lifelessness  of  mere  human  prudence.  "The 
Anglican  church  had  conquered  Romanism.  Puritanism  had 
sunk  deep  into-  the  hearts  of  the  ignored  people.  The  church 
had  won  the  day  and  held  the  field,  and  the  first  thing  it  did  was 
to  repudiate  its  old  relationships.  It  sought  no  wedlock  with 
poverty  such  as  Francis  sought  and  Giotto  painted  in  his  great 
fresco.  The  church  had  become  a  vast  machine  for  the  patronage 
of  morality  and  the  promotion  of  her  own  officers.  How  admir- 
able an  investment  is  religion !  Such  is  the  burden  of  their  plead- 
ing.   Sure  gauge  of  respectability  here  and  comfort  hereafter." 

An  extract  from  one  of  Clarke's  sermons  may  show  the  type 
of  pulpit  appeal  to  the  people : 

"The  principal  point  of  wisdom  in  the  conduct  of  human  life 
is  so  to  use  the  enjoyments  of  this  present  world  as  that  they  may 
not  themselves  shorten  the  period  wherein  'tis  allowed  us  to  enjoy 
them.  *  *  *  *  We  are  not  obliged  to  seek  the  Kingdom  of 
God  ivJiolly  or  only  in  a  total  and  absolute  exclusion  of  all  other 
desires  (as  some  melancholy,  well  disposed  persons  may  be  apt  to 
imagine),  but  only  that  we  are  to  seek  it  chiefly  and  in  the  first 
place.  *  *  *  *  We  are  required  only  to  retrench  our  vain 
and  foolish  expenses  ;  not  to  sell  all  and  give  to  the  poor,  but  to 
be  charitable  out  of  the  superfluity  of  our  plenty,  not  to  lay  down 
our  lives,  or  even  the  comfortable  enjoyments  of  life,  but  to  for- 
sake the  unreasonable  and  unfruitful  pleasures  of  sin." 

A  sleek,  comfortable,  prudent,  kind  of  piety  this,  such  as  had 
not  been  baptized  in  the  sacrificial  spirit  of  the  Cross,  and  which 
would  have  given  a  very  poor  account  of  itself  if  it  had  been 
exposed  to  the  fires  of  martyrdom. 

But  not  only  had  the  church  forgotten  its  spiritual  function, 
the  whole  social  fabric  of  life  was  saturated  with  the  licentiousness 
of  a  degraded  existence.  The  Sabbath  day  was  neglected,  espe- 
cially in  the  cities,  and  by  the  upper  classes.  Irreverence  in  God's 
house  was  a  common  fault.     Cabinet  councils  were  publicly  held 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  45 

on  the  Lord's  day,  as  were  theatrical  shows  (though  not  called 
"sacred  concerts").  Card  parties  and  other  social  functions  were 
common  on  that  day.  Society  seems  to  have  been  a  sink  of  all 
vices  and  a  sewer  for  all  the  haser  passions.  What  can  he  said 
for  the  morality  of  communities  where  one  hundred  and  sixty 
different  crimes  were  punishable  with  death,  and  where  capital 
punishment  was  indicted  as  plays  are  presented  in  theatres  pub- 
licly and  for  money? 

In  spite  of  this  extreme  stagnation  and  apparent  death,  the 
seed  of  the  Kingdom  of  God  was  secure,  and  its  germinal  power 
was  still  vigorous.  Again  it  asserted  itself  and  demonstrated  how 
little  Christianity  is  dependent  on  earthly  governments  and 
human  machines.  The  eighteenth  century  was  saved  from  utter 
moral  ruin  and  decay  by  a  great  revival  of  religion.  The 
"Wesleyan  movement"  it  was  called  in  England,  and  contempo- 
raneous with  it  the  "Great  Awakening,"  under  Jonathan 
Edwards,  in  this  country. 

Much  has  been  said  against  revivals  of  religion  in  these  later 
years.  And  they  have  been  termed  religious  frenzies,  but  far 
better  does  it  seem  to  incur  the  danger  of  the  nervous  phe- 
nomena of  a  revival  than  to  experience  that  religious  lethargy 
and  moral  death  of  whole  communities,  so  common  in  the  early 
years  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

The  religious  change  in  the  closing  years  of  the  eighteenth 
century  was  not  the  only  thing  for  which  these  years  were 
remarkable.  It  was  accompanied  by  a  great  intellectual  resusci- 
tation. Goethe  was  its  herald  in  Germany,  Wordsworth  and 
Southey  in  English  poetry,  Coleridge  was  reviving  interest  in 
philosophy,  while  Burns  had  sung  his  songs  of  love  and  nature, 
and  Walter  Scott  had  already  appeared.  While  I  have  no  doubt 
that  this  awakening  was  in  the  main  due  to  causes  outside  the 
domain  of  organized  Christianity,  the  most  discerning  historians 
would  not  exclude  altogether  the  revival  spirit  from  its  origins. 
A  writer  in  the  London  Spectator,  July  15,  1899,  insists  that: 
"Wesley  and  his  co-workers  produced  not  only  a  great  moral,  but 
also  a  great  intellectual  change  in  England." 

This  period  was  also  notable  for  its  political  agitation.  The 
war  of  independence  had  wrought  wonderful  changes  everywhere. 


46  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

It  had  kindled  the  fires  of  liberty  and  created  longings  for  free- 
dom, which  first  found  expression  in  France,  and  would  have 
spread  all  over  Europe  but  for  the  Reign  of  Terror.  This  revolu- 
tionary movement,  though  it  seemed  to  come  from  the  disabilities 
of  oppressed  colonists  and  the  unmatched  wretchedness  of  the 
masses  of  Europe,  had  its  distinctly  religious  element.  For  when 
cries  of  the  masses  for  bread  and  the  thunders  of  contending 
parties  came  before  the  true  spirit  of  Christianity,  Schleiermacher, 
one  of  its  most  discerning  interpreters,  unfolded  more  of  its  true 
meaning  than  had  yet  been  seen,  and  proclaimed  the  true  message 
of  the  revolution — that  Christianity  was  essentially  social,  and  the 
church  the  brotherhood  of  man.  Under  the  stimulus  of  these 
changes  the  Christianity  of  this  century  was  born,  and  immedi- 
ately addressed  itself  to  the  task  of  reorganizing  its  resources. 
In  1800  the  Church  Missionary  Society  was  founded  ;  in  1803,  the 
Sunday  School  Union;  in  1804,  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible 
Society.  In  1812  the  same  spirit  manifested  itself  in  America  in 
the  organization  of  the  American  Board;  in  1814,  the  General 
Missionary  Convention  of  the  Baptists;  in  1815.  the  Tract 
Society;  and  in  181 7,  the  Colonization  Society.  Nor  should  we 
overlook  in  these  organizing  movements  those  societies  for  the 
abolition  of  slavery,  which  have  been  of  such  immense  moment 
in  the  history  of  this  country  and  are  so  distinctively  religious  in 
their  origin.  To  the  Friends  of  Pennsylvania  belongs  the  honor 
of  the  first  society,  founded  1774.  But  to  Methodists  we  owe  the 
strongest  and  greatest  of  these  societies.  In  their  conference  of 
1780  they  declared  that  "slavery  is  contrary  to  the  laws  of  God 
and  man  and  nature,  and  hurtful  to  society ;  contrary  to  the  dic- 
tates of  conscience  and  pure  religion." 

Taking  all  these  things  into  account,  it  seems  as  if  Christi- 
anity, with  prophetic  foresight,  was  at  the  very  beginning  of  the 
century  anticipating  the  needs  and  development  of  the  coming 
hundred  years. 

At  this  period  also  there  were  signs  that  Christianity  would 
have  to  return  to  its  primitive  Apostolic  condition  and  depend 
on  her  own  resources  for  the  success  of  her  projected  undertak- 
ings, and  come  to  rely  less  and  less  on  the  support  of  the  State 
and  patronage  of  princes.     The  church  began  to  appeal  to  her 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  47 

own  constituency,  poor  as  well  as  rich,  for  voluntary  offerings. 
In  this  country  the  great  Protestant  bodies  had  to  provide  means 
for  the  building  of  churches,  for  schools  and  other  benefactions, 
as  well  as  to  defray  current  expenses  of  worship.  And  when  it 
is  remembered  that  most  of  these  institutions  have  been  estab- 
lished during  the  past  century,  the  amount  of  money  freely  con- 
tributed indicates  what  can  be  achieved  in  the  future.  In  the 
earlier  ages  the  expenses  of  religion  had  been  borne  as  an  exact- 
ing imposition,  from  which  there  was  no  relief.  But  there  now 
began  the  development  of  true  benevolence.  Now  the  people 
gave  to  the  support  of  Christianity  instead  of  paying  for  its 
ministrations.  The  voluntary  system  cultivates  the  spirit  of 
benevolence  and  makes  every  contributor  conscious  that  he  has  a 
real  part  to  play  in  the  advancement  of  Christianity. 

Co-ordinate  with  these  other  evidences  of  the  growth  of  the 
Kingdom  of  God  was  the  consciousness  of  a  mission  to  uplift  man 
in  his  social  condition.  Some  would  ascribe  the  beginnings  of 
this  to  the  High  Church  movement  and  Cardinal  Newman's  self- 
sacrificing  spirit.  But  I  cannot  see  how  a  careful  study  of  the 
question  could  fail  to  place  it  at  an  earlier  date.  The  work  of 
Robert  Raikes  for  the  dirty  urchins  of  Sooty  Alley  was  not  simply 
to  instruct  them  in  the  Scriptures,  but  to  improve  their  social 
condition.  Raikes  was  followed  in  his  work  of  social  redemption 
by  the  seventh  Earl  of  Shaftsbury  in  his  grand  struggle  in  behalf 
of  the  poor,  and  especially  in  shortening  the  hours  of  child  labor. 
Then  came  John  Howard,  Clarkson  and  YVilberforce,  and  other 
names  of  equal  lustre.  The  work  of  these  men  was  not  under  the 
patronage  of  the  church  ;  indeed,  it  was  often  opposed  by  the 
church  or  treated  with  indifference  ;  but  who  will  say  that  they 
were  not  inspired  by  the  spirit  of  Christianity  ? 

Great  advance  has  been  made  since  these  early  days  by  the 
church  toward  a  grander  social  ideal.  But  still  how  far  does  she 
feel  herself  from  the  beatific  vision  of  modern  theology  and  of 
the  wisest  and  best  of  her  thinkers  of  every  shade  of  faith.  This 
feeling  of  imperfection  and  struggle  toward  the  ideal  is  a  true 
sign  of  the  life  of  the  seed  and  warrants  a  deeper  hope  than  ever 
before  that  some  day  the  kingdoms  of  the  earth  will  be  the  King- 
dom of  Our  Lord,  and  that  their  politics  will  be  the  politics  of 
the  Sermon  on  the  Mount. 


48  NORTH     HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

The  church  has  not,  however,  contented  herself  with  dreaming 
of  a  time  when  society  should  be  relieved  of  all  her  present  ills. 
She  has  lent  herself  to  the  succor  of  poor  and  needy  who  are  suf- 
fering under  defective  systems  of  present  social  life.  London, 
Berlin,  St.  Petersburg,  Paris,  Vienna,  New  York,  Boston,  and 
other  great  communities  are  distinguished  for  their  abundant 
philanthropies  in  the  forms  of  hospitals,  infirmaries,  dispensaries, 
asylums,  homes  for  the  aged,  lodging  houses  for  the  poor,  shelters 
for  waifs  and  neglected  children,  societies  for  inebriates,  for  the 
protection  of  animals,  for  the  redemption  of  fallen  women,  and 
for  other  worthy  purposes.  In  London  five  hundred  charitable 
organizations  spend  $5,000,000  annually  ;  in  New  York  the  amount 
expended  exceeds  $4,000,000,  and  similar  sums  are  devoted  to 
benevolence  in  other  communities,  making  in  all  a  bewildering 
total.  These  benefactions  call  for  extraordinary  outlays  in 
money,  and  must  prove  a  serious  drain  on  the  resources  of  the 
people.  Doubtless  all  of  them,  whether  originating  in  the  Old 
World  or  in  the  New,  whether  originating  within  the  church  or 
without,  are  indebted  to  Christianity  for  their  existence.  These 
are  all  significant  signs  of  the  growing  strength  of  Christian 
feeling.  But  they  pathetically  demonstrate  the  sad  failure  of  our 
political  economy.  They  show  us  most  plainly  that  our  industrial 
system  is  not  what  it  should  be ;  for  if  it  were,  much  that  is  now 
lavished  on  chanty  would  be  spent  on  wages  and  the  recipients 
would  become  more  self-reliant  by  the  change.  Likewise  they 
are  signs  of  a  troubled  conscience,  of  an  uneasy  feeling  that  the 
evils  of  our  age  are  largely  the  outgrowth  of  bungling  methods 
and  of  a  desire,  if  possible,  to  make  atonement  for  the  wrongs 
inflicted,  and  for  the  remedy  of  which  neither  within  the  church 
nor  without  has  an  adequate  antidote  yet  been  provided. 

What  adds  to  the  pathos  of  it  all,  is  that  there  is  an  ever 
deepening  consciousness  of  the  relative  failure  of  charity.  There 
is  no  appreciable  narrowing  of  the  domain  of  poverty  or  material 
reduction  of  the  number  of  beneficiaries  or  removal  of  the  causes 
of  want.  There  seems  to  be  a  consensus  of  opinion  among 
philanthropists  that  the  machine  consumes  too  much  fuel  for  the 
work  it  does. 

Mr.  Carnegie,  on  being  asked  why  he  gave  so  much  money 
to  libraries,  replied:    "I  undertake  to  help  the  swimmers,  not  the 


NORTH    HAVEN    IX     I  H  K    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  49 

submerged  tenth,"  and  there  is  sound  philosophy  in  that.  While 
the  church  must  never  forget  the  submerged  elements  of  society, 
and  must  go  out  in  as  tender  love  to  them  as  to  any  others,  she 
must  strive  to  help  them  swim,  not  "attempt  the  impossible — 
swim  for  them."  It  seems  at  present  as  though  no  schemes  of 
beneficence  would  fully  counteract  the  evils  of  the  present  indus- 
trial system.  Only  a  complete  regeneration  of  all  the  avenues  of 
life  would  effect  such  a  reform.  But  the  Christian  spirit  should 
net  and  will  not  neglect  her  duty  of  benevolence  to  the  masses 
of  humanity,  and  in  the  coming  years  must  address  herself  to  the 
task  of  reorganizing-  her  institutions,  so  as  to  insure  a  greater 
amount  of  work  from  the  amount  expended.  The  great  denom- 
inations should  come  together  and  agree  on  some  principle  of 
co-operation  in  their  benevolent  work  so  that  none  of  the  worthy 
should  be  neglected  and  none  of  the  needy  be  pauperized  by 
unwise  lavishness.  This  should  be  the  direct  work  of  the  church, 
and  not  treated  as  an  obligation  which  the  commonwealth  owes 
the  citizen.  'When  such  an  impression  as  this  gets  abroad,  as  in 
imperial  Rome,  the  number  of  indigents,  who  are  shameless, 
increase,  and  the  more  imperious  their  demands  become. 

Any  sketch  of  the  Christianity  of  the  century,  however  imper- 
fect, can  never  pass  over  the  wondrous  change  which  has  taken 
place  in  understanding  of  the  church  with  regard  to  the  material 
sources  of  her  faith.  The  Bible  at  the  beginning  of  the  century 
was  regarded  by  the  Protestant  church  as  received  from  God 
almost  without  error,  and  inspired  from  cover  to  cover.  But  the 
unfolding  of  the  Christian  spirit  has  revealed  the  human  element 
in  its  production.  Worthy  men  had  been  moved  to  tell  of  their 
feelings,  desires  and  ideals.  And  as  they  were  human  and  erring, 
had  imparted  to  this  wondrous  book  their  own  characteristics. 
In  fact,  inspiration  has  entirely  lost  its  former  significance,  and 
is  now  merely  a  way  of  saying  that  the  Bible  is  a  revelation  of 
God.  At  the  beginning  of  the  century  the  Bible  was  believed  to 
be  true  because  it  was  inspired.  To-day  it  is  believed  to  be 
inspired  because  of  its  inherent  worth.  It  is  Truth  that  proves 
the  inspiration,  not  inspiration  the  Truth. 

I  know  that  there  are  many  devout  souls  that  feel  afraid  of 
the  criticism  of  the  Bible  which  has  been  so  characteristic  of  the 
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NORTH    HAVKN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  5  I 

later  years  of  this  century.  But  I  believe  it  to  be  but  the  unfold- 
ing of  that  Christian  spirit  which  the  book  itself  contains.  We 
find  in  it  sundry  exhortations  and  divers  explicit  warnings,  which 
are  somewhat  irrelevant  if  we  are  not  to  test  the  credentials  of  an 
alleged  inspired  man  or  book  by  the  character  of  the  teachings 
published.  We  read:  "When  a  prophet  speaketh  in  the  name 
of  the  Lord,  if  the  thing  follows  not  nor  comes  to  pass,  that  is  the 
thing  which  the  Lord  hath  not  spoken,  but  the  prophet  hath 
spoken  it  presumptuously,  thou  shalt  not  be  afraid  of  him."  Here, 
then,  we  have  one  claiming  to  be  sent  of  God  to  be  inspired,  and 
yet  he  can  be  set  aside  if  his  testimony  is  false.  When  St.  John 
writes :  "Beloved,  believe  not  every  spirit,  but  try  the  spirits, 
whether  they  are  of  God,  because  many  false  prophets  have  gone 
out  into  the  world,"  and  when  St.  Paul  adds:  "Prove  all  things," 
we  have  sufficient  warrant  for  subjecting  every  alleged  revelation 
to  close  and  thorough  scrutiny. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  St.  John,  in  closing  his  Gospel, 
does  not  ground  its  claim  to  be  accepted  on  its  inspiration,  but 
on  its  truth,  and  that  St.  Luke,  when  he  takes  in  hand  to  set  forth 
in  order  a  declaration  of  these  things,  reminds  Theophilus  of  his 
eminent  qualifications  for  the  task,  but  inspiration  is  not  men- 
tioned among  them.  Our  Saviour  likewise,  in  His  controversies 
with  the  Jews,  never  assumes  that  whatever  He  says  should  be 
believed  because  He  said  it,  but  only  and  always  because  it  is 
true.  He  challenges  investigation,  and  expects  that  He  will  be 
finallv  judged  by  the  same  rule  that  He  employs  in  judging 
others.  This  same  principle  is  evolved  from  the  findings  of 
Higher  Criticism.  While  it  concedes  that  there  is  an  inspired 
revelation  in  the  word  of  God,  it  impresses  on  us  the  necessity  of 
search,  of  inquiry,  that  the  divine  may  be  discriminated  from  the 
human ;  the  true  from  the  erroneous ;  the  essential  from  the 
adventitious  ;  the  permanent  from  the  evanescent.  In  pursuing 
these  investigations  critics  may  think  they  have  reached  some 
absurd  conclusions  and  may  lay  down  for  themselves  canons  of 
criticism  distinctive  of  the  supernatural :  but,  while  these  ex- 
tremes are  to  be  deplored,  the}'  do  not  invalidate  or  discredit 
the  obligation  "to  prove  all  things." 

We  are  told  that  this  individual  enquiry  will  unsettle  faith  and 
lead  to  alienation  and  divisions  in  the  Christian  world.     Is  it  not 


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fair  to  ask  :  I  las  any  other  theory  saved  the  world  from  this?  Has 
verbal  inspiration  saved  the  spectacle  of  sect  and  schisms,  wrang- 
ling- parties  and  hostile  camps?  Has  it  protected  the  Scripture 
from  reckless,  irreverent,  ridiculous  and  contradictory  interpreta- 
tions? If  it  has  not,  where  is  its  practical  advantage?  An  infal- 
lible word  which  forbids  serious  search  into  the  real  truth  of  its 
position,  calls  for  an  infallible  interpreter  of  that  word,  and  the 
Church  of  Rome  is  the  only  place  where  one  who  has  this  for  his 
foundation  stone  will  be  at  rest. 

But  how  shall  we  know  what  is  from  God,  and  what  from 
man,  and  what  is  binding-  on  us,  and  what  is  not?  How  know? 
Set  the  imprecatory  Psalms  over  against  the  Sermon  on  the 
.Mount,  and  is  it  conceivable  that  the  feeblest  intellect  should  fail 
to  detect  the  immeasurable  distance  between  them  or  for  one 
moment  doubt  which  was  authoritative  in  human  conduct  ?  Dis- 
crimination is  not  a  difficult  task ;  and  under  either  hypothesis  it 
is  unavoidable.  Though  we  may  believe  every  word  in  the  Bible 
has  been  dictated,  that  does  not  commend  to  us  the  conduct  of 
Samson,  Ahab,  Judas  and  other  kindred  souls,  we  set  these 
men  aside  just  as  we  do  some  hasty  and  violent  expressions  which 
have  fallen  from  the  lips  of  some  Bible  saints,  as  not  being  for 
our  imitation.  Whether  we  like  to  do  so  or  not,  we  must  dis- 
criminate if  we  are  to  be  helped  by  the  Scriptures. 

I  believe  it,  then,  to  be  one  of  the  evidences  of  wondrous 
growth  of  Christianity  during  the  past  century  that  the  Bible  is 
no  longer  left  as  an  unquestioned  book,  but  by  careful  and 
thoughtful  research  has  been  found  filled  to  the  brim  with  warm 
human  interest  and  with  a  life  superior  to  the  life  of  contempo- 
raries because  of  a  unique  presence  and  immanence  of  a  distinctly 
divine  element.  It  will  matter  little  what  the  critics  lay  aside  of 
low  ethical  worth  or  to  whom  they  ascribe  it  as  author,  so  long 
as  they  get  at  the  Truth  and  give  us  something  that  will  be  of 
practical  value  for  Christian  living.  For  Truth  is  far  better  than 
fiction,  and  true  living  than  any  ecclesiastical  theory  of  inspira- 
tion. 

Unavoidably  under  such  changing  life  outward  expressions 
of  man's  religion  have  materially  changed.  A  recent  writer  sums 
this  change  up  entirely  in  the  tendency  toward  humanism.     Xot 


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strictly  speaking,  the  humanism  of  the  Reformation,  but  the 
humanism  of  Christ.  This  humanism  is  essentially  evangelical. 
While  it  regrets  the  hard,  rigid  and  arid  features  of  Augustinian- 
ism  and  its  offspring  Calvinism,  it  cherishes  the  fundamental 
doctrines  of  Grace  and  finds  the  key  to  their  meaning  in  the 
Fatherhood  of  God  and  the  brotherhood  of  man.  It  talks  not 
at  all  about  predestinations  and  reprobations.  It  does  not  dwell 
on  Divine  wrath ;  feels  that  such  preaching  has  been  overdone ; 
it  has  no  confidence  in  limited  atonements  or  in  anything 
"limited"  that  represents  the  Almighty,  except  His  anger ;  it  has 
little  patience  with  the  "schemes  of  redemption,"  presumptuously 
attributed  to  His  wisdom,  and  which  not  infrequently  have  fur- 
nished evidence  of  man's  folly ;  but  instead,  it  magnifies  the  love 
of  God,  beholds  that  love  in  the  sacrifice  of  Christ,  believes  that 
through  that  love  humanity  is  begotten  again  to  love. 

While  I  am  not  oblivious  to  the  fact  that  numbers  still  adhere 
to  the  cold  rigidity  of  Calvinism  and  think  more  of  God's  wrath 
as  a  power  for  good  than  of  His  all-conquering  love,  still  I 
believe  the  tide  has  turned  and  men  are  coming  surely,  if  slowly, 
to  believe  in  the  Divine  humanism  of  the  Christ. 

Equipped  as  it  is  for  the  coming  years,  Christianity  cannot 
stand  still ;  she  must  progress.  Gradually  she  is  approximating 
toward  the  sublime  ideal.  There  is  a  power  in  the  Divine  seed ; 
it  shall  grow  and  spread  until  it  shall  become  a  kingdom  on 
whose  boundaries  the  sun  shall  never  set,  and  against  whose 
power  the  gates  of  Hell  shall  nevermore  prevail.  Yes,  it  is  com- 
ing! All  signs  point  to  its  approach,  and  however  the  hearts  of 
men  may  falter  and  fear,  and  however  they  may  construe  diffi- 
culties into  prophesies  of  dire  disaster,  the  instructed  ear  cannot 
be  deaf  to  the  sweet  promises  sounding  in  the  closing  hours  of 
the  nineteenth  century  concerning  the  spiritual  unfolding  of 
Christianity  in  the  twentieth. 


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MEMBERSHIP  OF  THE  UNION   BAPTIST  CHURCH, 

MON  TOWESF,  CONN. 

Organized  June  12,  181 1. 
The  Rev.  Chari.es  W.  Jackson,  Pastor. 

Deacons. 
William  Todd,  John  L.   Larkins. 

John   L.   Larkins,  Clerk. 
John  H.   Beach,  Treasurer. 


Ailing,  Mrs.  Susan  Beach 
Bailey,  Mrs.  Merwin 
Barnes,  Arthur  S. 
Barnes   Charles  M. 
Barnes.  Miss  Floralind  M. 
Barnes,  Linus 
Barnes,  Mrs.  Mary  E. 


Barnes,  Reuben  W. 
Barnes,  Willis 
Bigelow,  Miss  Grace  L. 
Brockett,  Mrs   George 
Broekett,  Mrs.  Le  Roy 
Brockett    Mrs.  Maria 
Bunnell    Miss  Harriett 


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Cooper,  Mrs.  Ellsworth  B. 
Dolby,  Mrs.  Isaac 
Eaton,  Mrs.  Theophilus 
Fitch,  Mrs.  Lucy  Ann 
Foote,  Miss  Almira 
Foote,  Miss  Ella 
Foote,  Mrs.  Frank 
Foote,  Henry  M. 
Foote,  Judson  D.      ) 
Foote,  Louise  Hill  I 
Foote,  Miss  Mary  E. 
Foote,  Mrs.  Sybil  Brockett 
Froelich,  William 
Gates,  John  ) 

Gates.  Grace  Augur  ) 
Jackson,  Miss  Annie  E. 
Jackson,  Charles  W. 
Judd,  Truman  O.  / 

Judd,  Amanda  Robinson  ) 
Judd,  John  B.  I 

Judd,  Grace  Culver  ) 
Kober,  Miss  Nellie 
Laramore.  Charles  F.      j 
Laramore,  Lulu  Payne  ) 
Laramore.  Miss  Minnie  T. 
Larkins,  Mrs   John  L. 
Larkins,  Miss  Estella  M. 


Linsley,  Mrs.  Etta  Gates 
Noble,  Garry  L  \ 

Noble,  Margaret  Head) 
Palmer,  Alonzo  H. 
Palmer,  Mrs.  Francis 
Palmer,  Merwin  E.  J 
Palmer,  Elsie  Leete  > 
Payne,  Miss  Mary  A. 
Perry,  Nathaniel  ) 

Perry,  Lydia  Durkee  $ 
Rice,  Mrs.  George 
Robinson,  Charles  D.    } 
Robinson,  Mary  Judd) 
Robinson,  Mrs.  Ellsworth 
Robinson,  Herbert 
Robinson,  Mrs.  Herman 
Robinson,  Miss  Nellie  E. 
Robinson,  Raymond  R. 
Robinson,  Willard  A.  ) 

Robinson,  Georgia  Lombard  ) 
Robinson,  William  | 

Robinson,  Eliza  Chapman  \ 
Sackett,  Miss  Margaret  V. 
Todd.  Miss  Rosa 
Todd,  Mrs.  William 
Tucker,  Mrs.  Dennis  W. 


LADIES'  AID  SOCIETY. 

Union  Baptist  Church,  Montowese. 

Mrs.  Theophilus  Eaton,  President. 
Miss  Mary  Foote,  Secretary. 
Miss  Stella  Larkins,  Treasurer. 


Barnes,  Miss  Flora 
Barnes,  Mrs.  Alary 
Brockett,   Mrs.   Maria 
Cooper,  Mrs.  Edith  A. 
Cooper,  Mrs.  George  H. 
Dolby,  Mrs.  I.  E. 
Foote,  Miss  Almira 
Foote,  Miss  Ella 
Foote,  Mrs.  Judson  D. 
Hemingway.  Mrs.  Edgar  A. 


Hemingway,  Miss  Genevieve 
Jackson,   Miss  Annie 
Jackson,  Mrs.  Olivia 
Kober,  Mrs.  Louisa 
Kober,   Miss   Nellie 
Laramore,   Mrs.   Lulu 
Larkins,   Mrs.  John  L. 
Mayer,  Mrs.  S.  E. 
Merrick,  Mrs.  Adeline 
Pardee,  Mrs.  Edwin  H. 


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Pardee,  Mrs.   Louise 
Pardee,  Mrs.  L.  H. 
Payne,  Miss  Mary 
Perry,  Mrs.  L.  J. 
Rice,  Mrs.  G.  J. 
Robinson,  Mrs.  H.  M. 
Robinson,  Miss  Nellie 
Robinson,  Mrs.  Willard  A. 


Sackett,  Mrs.  Samuel 
Schneider,  Mrs.  Martha 
Smith,  Mrs.  Frank  L. 
Storrs,  Mrs.  Hector  W. 
Todd,  Miss  Carrie 
Todd,   Miss   Rosa 
Todd,  Mrs.  William  P. 


WORKERS'  MISSION  BAND  OF  UNION  BAPTIST 

CHURCH. 

Senior  Division. 

George  Kober,  President. 
Miss  Mary  Eaton,  Secretary. 
Miss  Maude  Bottume,  Treasurer. 


Beach,   Ada 
Benson,   Bertha 
Brockett,  Florence 
Cooper,  Ethel 
Foote,   Charlotte 


Foote,  Ernest 
Foote,  Florence 
Frederick,  Annie 
Frederick,  Harriett 
Glover,  Bertha 


Residence  of  E.  H.  Pardee. 


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Gritzbach,   Albert 
1  femingway,  Ruth 
Kober,  August 
Perry,  Adelbert 

Payne,  Burton 
Robinson,   Glcnford 
Robinson,  Robert 
Saxton,  Leroy 
Small,  Irving 
Storrs,  Bessie 
Talmadge,   Edith 
Turner,  Frank 
Wallace,  Charles 
Wallace,   Daisy 
Wallace,  Rosie 


Junior  Division. 
Harry  Cooper,  Secretary. 
Beach,  Arthur 
Benson,  Agnes 
Bottume,   Gladys 
Brockett,   Olive 
Brockett,  Romeyne 
Cartier,  Edmund 
Fish,   Hattie 
Hemingway,  Heaton 
Hemingway,  Lila 
Hemingway,  Paul 
Hemingway,  Ralph 
Kober,   William 


McLeod,   Ina 
Payne,  Walter 
Saxton,  Frederic 
Shea,  Arthur 
Shea,  Harold 
Small,  Grace 
Small,  Harold 
Wallace,  Angel 


Union  Mission  Chapel, 
Clintonville. 


UNION  MISSION  CHAPEL,  CLINTONVILLE. 

Erected  by  subscription,  1889. 
Site  donated  by  George  S.  Vibbert. 
Cost  of  building,  $1,000.00. 

Religious   service    Sunday   evenings.     Affairs    controlled   by 
an  Executive  Committee. 

O.  Sherwood  Todd,  Chairman. 
Edwin  B.  Stevens,  Secretary. 
Ernest  H.  Richardson,  Treasurer. 

The  meetings  held  are  undenominational,  the  desk  being  sup- 
plied by  clergymen  and  laymen  from  surrounding  churches. 


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PREACHED   IN 

ST.  JOHNS  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH, 

North  Haven,  Conn.,  December  30,  1900, 

BY 

The  Rev.  Louis  A.  Parsons.  Rector. 

"  And  thou  shalt  remember  all  the  way  which  the  Lord 
thy  God  hath  led  thee." — Deut   viii:2. 

This  command  of  Moses,  the  man  of  God,  comes  at  a  time 
when  it  is  needful  that  Israel  remember  the  past. 

The  forty  years  of  probation  in  the  wilderness  have  drawn  to 
a  close — years,  designed,  as  Aloses  tells  them,  to  humble  them,  to 
prove  them,  to  know  what  was  in  their  heart,  whether  they  would 
keep  God's  commandments  or  no.  These  years  have  been 
marked  by  much  suffering  and  sore  trial,  as  indeed  all  periods  of 
probation  must  necessarily  be.  Many  a  dreadful  experience  has 
seemed  at  the  time  of  its  happening  to  signal  the  destruction  of 
God's  chosen  people,  but  out  of  every  such  apparent  disaster  has 
come  a  mighty  and  marvelous  deliverance.  Each  perilous  ex- 
perience has  but  served  to  manifest  "the  mighty  hand  and  the 
stretched  out  arm,"  whereby  the  Lord  their  God  has  protected 
and  preserved  them  that  have  trusted  in  Him  and  kept  His  Com- 
mandments. 

And  so  these  years  have  served  in  the  first  place  as  a  great 
test  by  which  God  has  proven  the  hearts  of  those  whose  loyalty 
and  obedience  has  fitted  them  for  participation  in  a  wider  fulfil- 
ment of  His  purposes  in  the  Promised  Land. 

But  the  years  have  served  yet  another  purpose — they  have 
served  to  reveal  the  nature  and  the  will  of  God.  "And  thou 
shalt  remember  all  the  way  which  the  Lord  thy  God  hast  led 
thee," — remember  it  as  a  God-given  opportunity  of  proving 
your  fitness  to  share  the  privileges  and  responsibilities  of  a  larger, 


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happier  life, — remember  it,  too,  as  the  blessed  disclosure  of 
God's  love  and  mighty  purpose  for  His  people — "and  He  hum- 
bled thee,  and  suffered  thee  to  hunger,  and  fed  thee  with  manna, 
which  tliQU  knowest  not,  neither  did  thy  fathers  know ;  that  He 
might  make  thee  know  that  man  doth  not  live  by  bread  only,  but 
by  every  word  that  proceedeth  out  of  the  mouth  of  the  Lord  doth 
man  live." 

It  is  well  to  remember    the    past — profitable    to    look    back 
over  the  years  that  have  gone  for  the  lessons  they  teach  us. 


St.  Iuhn's  Church  and  Rectory. 


"Distance,"  we  say,  "lends  enchantment  to  the  view."  Yes, 
it  lends  enchantment  because  it  lends  perspective.  To  see  the 
beauty  of  a  landscape  we  must  see  it  from  a  distance.  At  close 
quarters  we  lose  the  effect,  because  we  lose  the  proportions.  But 
once  let  the  distance  of  a  mile  or  more  intervene,  and  we  begin 
to  see  things  in  their  true  perspective. 

Just  so  the  distance  of  years  is  necessary  to  a  true  estimate  of 
life.     Its  events  are  then  seen  in  their  relative  importance  and 


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true  meaning-.  Each  experience,  at  the  time  so  painful,  and 
seemingly  disastrous,  now  assumes  a  widely  different  aspect,  be- 
cause seen  in  its  relations  to  the  whole.  Life's  perspective  is 
gained  and  its  troubles  become  blessings.  "It  is  good,"  says  the 
Psalmist,  as  he  looks  back  over  his  life,  "it  is  good  that  I  have 
been  afflicted" — good,  because,  as  he  reviews  his  life,  and  sees  it 
in  its  true  perspective,  he  perceives  a  school  of  discipline  whose 
long  succession  of  apparent  disasters  and  misfortunes  are  seen 


The  Rev.  Louis  A.  Parsons. 

Rector  St.  John's  Church. 

to  have  been  blessed  opportunities  of  spiritual  growth.  "It  is 
good  that  I  have  been  afflicted,  that  I  might  learn  thy  statutes?" 

The  true  object  of  life  is  Character.  And  all  life's  various 
vicissitudes,  when  seen  in  their  continuity,  become  stepping 
stones  to  nobler  spiritual  achievements  and  the  Christlike  Char- 
acter. 

The  all  important  thing,  however,  is  that  we  regard  and  ac- 
cept them  as  such — that  we  bear  our  prosperities  with  Christlike 


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humility,  our  adversities  with  Christlike  patience  and  faith.  And 
so  whate'er  may  be  our  earthly  lot,  we  may  each  succeeding 
year  look  back  upon  the  man}-  that  are  gone  with  the  deepest 
sense  of  gratitude,  not  because  they  have  brought  us  wealth,  but 
because  they  have  brought  us  character ;  not  because  they  have 
brought  us  fame,  but  because  they  have  brought  us  peace ;  not 
because  they  have  brought  us  nearer  the  attainment  of  some 
earthly  ambition,  but  because  they  have  brought  us  nearer  Jesus. 

"I  do  not  ask,  O  Lord,  that  life  may  be  a  pleasant  road ; 
I  do  not  ask  that  thou  wouldst  take  from  me  aught  of  its  load. 
I  do  not  ask  that  flowers  should  always  spring  beneath  my  feet ; 
I  know  too  well  the  poison  of  the  sting  of  things  too  sweet. 
For  one  thing  only,  Lord,  dear  Lord,  I  plead ;  Lead  me  aright, 
Though  strength  should  falter,  and  though  Heart  should  bleed, 
Through  peace  to  light. 
I  do  not  ask,  O  Lord,  that  Thou  shouldst  shed  full  radiance 

here ; 
Give  but  a  ray  of  peace,  that  I  may  tread  without  a  fear. 
I  do  not  ask  my  cross  to  understand  my  way  to  see  ; 
Better  in  darkness  just  to  feci  Thy  Hand  and  follow  Thee. 
Joy  is  like  restless  day  ;  but  peace  divine,  like  quiet  night. 
Lead  me,  O  Lord,  till  perfect  dav  shalt  shine,  through  peace 

to  light." 

And  then,  if  the  years  reveal  to  us  the  meaning  and  purpose  of 
life — they  just  as  truly  reveal  to  us  the  nature  and  designs  of 
God.  Through  all  the  years  there  shines  that  continual  mani- 
festation of  God's  love  and  purpose  for  His  children.  Whether 
it  be  time  of  peace  or  time  of  war ;  long  stretches  of  prosperity,  or 
decades  of  disaster ;  great  epochs  of  progress,  or  sad  epochs  of 
retrogression — through  all  alike  the  divine  purpose  unceasingly 
unfolds  itself.  Time  was  when  men  took  a  partialistic  view  of 
God's  government  of  the  world — when  they  thought  that  He 
cared  and  legislated  for  some  and  not  for  others.  But  that  day 
is  past,  thank  God,  and  to-day  such  partialistic  view  is  impossible 
- — impossible,  because  to-day  anything  like  a  partialistic 
view  of  His  love  is  incredible.  To-day,  we  are  certain  that  He 
loves  all  men,  irrespective  of  race,  generation,  color  or  conditions 
— loves  them  with  an  affection  divine  and  impartial.  And  we 
know,  too,  to-day,  that  all  things  come  from  God,  and  because 
we  know  this,  we  are  confident  that  He  is  present  in  our  sorrows 


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just  as  truly  as  in  our  joys,  in  time  of  adversity  just  as  really  as 
in  season  of  prosperity. 

Even  the  sins  of  mankind  serve  to  manifest  the  inexorable 
righteousness  of  God,  and  the  punishments  which  they  entail  are 
but  the  evidence  of  His  infinite  love.  Men  are  making  history 
whenever  they  think,  feel,  and  act ;  and  history  is  the  revelation 
of  God's  purpose,  because  it  is  the  manifestation  of  man's  nature 
and  destiny.  Human  life  in  all  its  phases  and  conditions  is  the 
disclosure  of  human  character  and  its  issues.  And  so  the  years 
are  all  consecutive  chapters  in  that  great  and  glorious  Book  of 
Revelation,  which  all  mankind  is  unconsciously  writing  by 
thought  and  deed — the  great  spiritual  history  of  the  race  in 
which  we  see  the  key  to  all  other  histories,  and  without  whose 
light  they  are  all  delusive  and  insufficient. 

It  is  God's  great  purpose  shining  through  the  years  which 
imparts  to  them  the  unity  of  one  sublime  movement  of  life  and 
love,  and  the  fathomless  significance  of  the  working  out  of  a  will 
which  overlooks  no  detail  however  slight,  and  forgets  no  life 
however  obscure  and  insignificant. 

Surely  the  years  are  all  divine  because  they  come  from  God. 
As  a  poet  has  said  : — 

A  mighty  Hand  from  an  exhaustless  urn 
Pours  forth  the  never-ending  flood  of  years 
Among  the  Nations.     How  the  rushing  waves 
Bears  all  before  them,  on  their  foremost  edge, 
And  there  alone  is  life.     The  present  there 
Tosses  and  foams,  and  fills  the  air  with  roar 
Of  mingled  noises         *         *         *         * 

*         *         *         Beyond 
That  belt  of  darkness,  still  the  years  roll  on 
More  gently,  but  with  not  less  mighty  sweep, 
They  gather  up  again  and  softly  bear 
All  the  sweet  lives  that  late  wrere  overwhelmed 
And  lost  to  sight,  all  that  is  there  was  good. 
Noble  and  truly  great,  and  worthy  of  love — 
The  lives  of  infants  and  ingenious  youths. 
Sages  and  saintly  women  who  have  made 
Their  households  happy  ;  all  are  raised  and  borne 
By  that  great  current  in  its  onward  sweep, 
Wandering  and  rippling  with  caressing  waves 
Around  green  islands  with  its  breath 
Of  flowers  that  never  wither." 


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"And  thou  shall  remember  all  the  way  which  the  Lord  thy 
God   hath  led  thee." 

When  these  words  were  first  spoken  the  Children  of  Israel 
stood  on  the  brink  of  Jordan — upon  the  very  threshold  of  the 
Promised  Land.  One  era  in  their  progress  has  closed,  another 
is  opening  up  before  them.  Behind  them  lie  the  forty  years  of 
trial  in  the  wilderness,  before  them  stretches  the  future  of  glori- 
ous promise.  And  it  is  at  this  very  point  of  transition  that  Moses 
bids  them  remember  the  past — remember  all  the  way  which  the 
Lord  thus  has  led  them. 

In  their  eagerness  to  enter  upon  this  new  period  of  their 
career — to  acquire  its  privileges  and  taste  its  blessings — their  dis- 
position, doubtless,  was  to  forget  the  past  and  the  lessons  which 
its  experience  had  brought  them,  and  rush  blindly  into  the  future. 

But  no,  there  must  be  a  pause — a  recollection  of  the  past — a 
summing  up  of  its  lessons.  Experience  is  a  good  teacher,  and 
the  past  with  its  experiences  must  ever  be  the  storehouse  of 
principles   which  shall  guide  the  future  of  these  men  of  Israel. 

We  find  ourselves  to-day,  my  friends,  in  a  somewhat  similar 
situation.  We  are  standing  upon  the  threshold,  not  only  of  a 
new  year,  but  of  a  new  century.  Behind  us  lie  one  hundred 
years  of  mighty  achievement  in  every  department  of  human  life 
and  thought. 

For  the  world  at  large  it  has  been  a  century  of  remarkable 
progress.  For  our  nation  in  particular  it  has  been  a  period  of 
most  rapid  development.  But  it  is  not  my  purpose  this  morn- 
ing to  go  back  over  these  years  and  review  in  detail  the  events, 
discoveries  and  products  that  have  marked  its  progress  and  made 
it  great.  The  newspapers  and  magazines  have  done  all  this  with 
a  thoroughness  which  leaves  nothing  to  be  said.  Nor  do  I  pro- 
pose to  prognosticate  the  future  that  lies  wrapped  in  the  century 
before  us.  My  purpose  is  simply  to  apply  to  the  years  of  this 
passing  century  what  I  have  already  said  of  the  years  in  general 
— that  their  significance  lies,  not  in  their  record  of  great  achieve- 
ments and  material  progress,  but  in  their  disclosure  of  life's 
meaning  and  purpose,  and  their  manifestation  of  the  nature  and 
design  of  God.  It  is  this,  indeed,  which  gives  to  the  years  their 
true  value  and  significance.     Then  let  us  profit  by  it.     And  as 


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we  stand  ready  to  enter  upon  another  century's  career  let  us 
pause  a  moment — remember  the  past — recall  its  lessons.  Let  us 
see  in  each  event  and  crisis,  in  every  prosperity  and  adversity  of 
the  past — a  stepping-  stone  to  greater  spiritual  attainment. 
And  in  every  such  experience,  let  us  note,  where  men  have  been 
true  to  their  highest  ideals,  and  governed  by  the  best  and  noblest 
motives,  the  inevitable  outcome  has  been  an  acquisition  of  char- 
acter which  is  always  the  greatest  strength  and  power  that  we  can 
possess. 

And  let  us  perceive,  too,  as  we  review  the  years,  the  light  of 
God's  love  and  purpose  shining  through  them.  It  is  this  ever- 
growing manifestation  of  the  all-embracing  love  of  God  and  the 
gradual  fulfilment  of  His  mighty  purpose  that  give  to  the  years 
a  unity  and  significance  truly  divine. 

God  is  the  Father  of  every  human  life,  however  insignificant 
or  obscure,  and  His  desire  and  purpose  is  that  every  human  life 
shall  know  His  love,  and  come  to  the  knowledge  and  like- 
ness of  Jesus  Christ.  May  these  facts  and  principles  guide  us 
as  we  enter  upon  this  Twentieth  Century  which  is  opening  before 
us.  May  it  be  a  century  of  spiritual  perception  and  progress, 
and  may  its  years  witness  to  all  ever  widening  and  deepening 
sense  of  the  Fatherhood  of  God,  and  the  brotherhood  of  men — 
and  so  to  the  hastening  of  that  day  when  the  kingdoms  of  this 
world  are  become  the  Kingdom  of  our  Lord  and  of  His  Christ. 


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ST.  JOHNS   (EPISCOPAL)   CHURCH. 

Officers  of  the  Parish,  January  i,  1901. 
The  Rev.  Louis  A.  Parsons,  Rector. 
Hubert  F.  Potter,  Senior  Warden. 
Frank  L.  Stiles,  Junior  Warden. 

Vestrymen. 
Hobart  Blakeslee,  Joseph  Pierpont, 

Edwin  H.  Pardee,  Herbert  P.  Smith, 

Charles  W.  Dudley. 

Harry  C.  Beers,  Clerk. 

Romanta  T.  Linsley,  Treasurer. 

Compiled  by  R.  T.  Linsley. 

St.  John's  Church  was  one  hundred  forty-two  years  old  April 
24,  1 901.  It  was  organized  as  a  parish  church  of  the  Church  of 
England,  in  1759.  A  society,  in  some  form,  had  existed  from 
1722  to  1759. 

The  first  confirmation,  one  of  the  earliest  in  this  country,  was 
in  1786,  by  Bishop  Seabury,  the  first  Bishop  of  Connecticut  and 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  The  next  was  by  the  same 
Bishop  in  1795.  Thirty-two  persons  were  confirmed  by  him.  In 
181 1  thirty-seven  persons  were  confirmed  by  Bishop  Jarvis,  the 
second  Bishop  of  Connecticut.  Between  1821  and  1845,  during 
the  Episcopate  of  Bishop  Brownell,  the  third  Bishop  of  Con- 
necticut, sixty-three  were  confirmed.  Between  1852  and  1897. 
under  the  Episcopate  of  Bishop  Williams,  the  fourth  Bishop  of 
Connecticut,  two  hundred  forty-one  were  confirmed.  Between 
1898  and  1901,  during  the  present  Episcopate  of  Bishop  Brew- 
ster, twenty-one  have  been  confirmed.  Total  number  confirmed, 
three  hundred  ninety-four. 

The  number  of  Episcopal  families  in  1801  was  forty-one.  The 
Grand  List  of  the  Episcopal  Society  in  1801  was  $4>54<3-    In  1817 


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there  were  forty-two  families  and  thirty  registered  communicants. 
In  1830  thirty  families  and  forty  registered  communicants.  In 
1840  forty-four  families  and  forty  registered  communicants.  In 
1859  St.  John's  Church  celehrated  its  one  hundredth  anniversary. 
In  that  year  there  were  fifty-five  families  and  seventy-two  regis- 
tered communicants.  In  1870  there  were  sixty-two  families  and 
one  hundred  registered  communicants.  In  1880  seventy-six 
families  and  one  hundred  twenty-eight  registered  communicants. 
In  1901  there  are  one  hundred  four  families,  and  parts  of  families, 
and  two  hundred  eighteen  registered  communicants. 


Hubert  F.  Potter. 

Ex-Selectman. 

Chairman  State  Dairymen's  Association. 

Warden  St.  John's  Church. 


Joseph  Pierpont. 

Ex-Member  General  Assembly. 
Treasurer  riradley  Library. 
Vestryman  St.  John's  Church. 


Between  1759  and  1857  thirty  Episcopal  clergymen  officiated 
here,  at  different  times,  and  each  only  part  of  the  time.  No 
clergyman  resided  here  before  1833  ;  and  no  one  was  elected 
rector  of  the  parish,  with  residence  here  and  services  every  Sun- 
day, before  1857.     Between  that  date  and   1899    there  were  nine 


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rectorships.  They  were  short,  except  two — the  rectorship  of  the 
Rev.  E.  L.  Whitcombe,  seven  years  and  four  months,  between 
1869  and  1877,  during  which  thirty-five  persons  were  baptized, 
forty  were  confirmed,  and  the  offerings  greatly  increased  ;  and 
the  rectorship  of  the  Rev.  William  Lusk,  nineteen  years,  between 


The  Rev.  William  Lusk. 

Rector  St.  John's  Church  1880-1899. 

1880  and  1899,  during  which  one  hundred  six  persons  were 
baptized,  one  hundred  thirty  confirmed,  and  a  number  were  wait- 
ing for  confirmation  at  the  close  of  the  rectorship.  This  period, 
between  1880  and  1899,  is  the  period  of  greatest  advance  in  the 
history  of  St.  John's  Church,  in  the  number  of  families,  baptisms, 


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confirmations  and  registered  communicants;  and  in  church 
music,  organized  work,  and  in  the  offerings  and  wealth  of  the 
people.  During  this  period  the  endowment  fund  of  the  parish 
reached  the  sum  of  $18,000.  The  present  rectorship,  beginning 
in  1899,  is  the  tenth. 


Herbert  P.  Smith. 

Vestryman  St.  John's  Church. 


Evelyn  Blakeslee. 

Warden  St.  John's  Church  fifty  years. 
Trial  Justice  Local  Town  Court. 
Member  General  Assembly,  1851. 
Ex-Selectman  and  Town  Agent. 
Died  1888. 


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REGISTERED  COMMUNICANTS,  1901. 


Resident. 


Allen,   Franklin 
Allen,  Hobart  B. 
Allen,   David  F. 
Allen,  Hiram 
Allen,  Margaret 
Bailey,  Samuel 
Bailey,    Marina    S. 
Bailey,   Frederic   E. 
Bassctt,   Flerbert  I. 
Bassett,  Frances  S. 
Beach,  M.  Elizabeth, 
Beach,  Nettie  A. 
Beers,    Harry   C. 
Bigelow,   Lucy  A. 
Bigelow,  Glenna  M. 
Bishop,  Joseph   E. 
Bishop,  Margaret  S. 
Bishop,  Walter  H. 
Bishop,   Kitty   L. 
Bishop,   Lucy   M. 
Bishop,  Edwin  S. 
Bishop,   Mary  A. 
Bishop,  Clarissa  M. 
Blakeslee,  Hobart 
Blakeslee,  Elnora  M. 
Blakeslee,  Arthur  A. 
Blakeslee,  George  N. 
Blakeslee,  John  H. 
Blakeslee,  Etta  A. 
Blakeslee,  Ruby  A. 
Blakeslee,  Florence  G. 
Blakeslee,  Philip  C. 
Blakeslee,  Donald  G. 
Blakeslee,   Lucy   L. 
Blakeslee,  Minnie  A. 
Blakeslee,   Sina 
Bradley,    Elizabeth    L. 
Bradley,  Eva  S. 
Brockett,  S.  Roena 
Brockett,  Edith  L. 
Buckingham,    Henry    W. 
Buckingham,  Henrietta  A. 


Butler,  Margaret  J. 

Cade,  Charles  T. 

Cade,  Fannie 

Clinton,  George  W. 

Clinton,    Frances  A. 

Clinton,  Grace  A. 

Clinton,   Friend 

Clinton,  Helen  G. 

Clinton,  Evelyn  B. 

Clinton,  Florence  A. 

Clinton,  Elbert  G. 

Clinton,   Ella  J. 

Clinton,  Robert  J. 

Clinton,  H.  Matilda 

Clinton,  Bessie  E. 

Clinton,  Anson  B. 

Clinton,  Mary  C. 

Clinton,   H.   Wilson 

Clinton,  Emily  B. 

Clinton,  Eliza  J. 

Crampton,   Hannah  E. 

Davis,    Emma   J. 

Divine,   Hervey   O. 

Divine,    Eliza    A. 
Doolittle,  Mary  A. 
DuBois,  Catherine  L. 
Dudley,  Charles  W. 
Dudley,  Flora   E. 
Dudley,  Edmund  J. 
Dudley,  Phcebe  J. 
Fowler,  Maltby 
Gabaree,  Julia  A. 
Gilbert,  Stephen  G. 
Gilbert,  Celia  L. 
Goodyear,  Ellen  M. 
Goodyear,  Anna  L. 
Goodyear,  Robert  W. 
Goodyear,  Sarah  A. 
Goodyear,  Mary  B. 
Harrison,    Reuben 
Harrison,  Jennie  A. 
Harrison,  Burdett 


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Heaton,   Charles   L. 
Heaton,  Edward  L.  L. 
Hipelius,  Ida  E. 
Hitchcock,  Sarah  E. 
Hull,  John  W. 
Hull.  John  S. 
Hull,  Martha  J. 
Hull,  Minnie  D. 
Hull,  Marietta  R. 
Hull,  Edward  P. 
Hull,  Carry  E. 
Hull,   Harriet  A. 
Keigwin,   Henry  C. 
Keigwin,   Clara   E. 
Keigwin,  Herbert  A. 
Keigwin,   Clarence   H. 
Keigwin,   Flora 
Laverty,   Isabella 
Laverty,  Birdie  M. 
Leete,  William  P. 
Leete,  Mary  E. 
Leete.   Cynthia  M. 
Linsley,  Romanta  T. 
Linsley,   Angeline   B. 
Lord,    Austin    B. 
Lusk,  The  Rev.  William 
Lusk,   Clara  H. 
McCabe,    Howard   E. 
Maginness,  Carrie  E. 
Mansfield,  Polly  C. 
Mansfield,  Isaac  E. 
Mansfield,  Mary  D. 
Mansfield,   Josephine   M. 
Marks,   Marcus    D. 
Marks,  S.  Elizabeth 
Moulton,  Mabel   B. 
Munson,   George  O. 
Munson,  Ellen  F. 
Munson,  Lucy  T. 
Parsons,  The  Rev.   Louis  A. 
Parsons,  Edwin  A. 
Parsons,  Mary  I. 
Pardee,  Edwin  H. 
Pardee,   Elizabeth   M. 
Pardee,  Louisa  L. 
Pierpont,  Joseph 


Pierpont,   Hattie   B. 
Pierpont,  Richards  B. 
Pierpont,  Harriet  R. 
Potter,  Hubert  F. 
Potter,   Catharine  A. 
Potter,  Walter  F. 
Potter,  Martha  E. 
Potter,  Emma  A. 
Potter,  Mattie  E. 
Pratt,  Charles  C. 
Priesley,   Leonard 
Redfield,  Ida  L. 
Redfield,  Fannie  M. 
Redfield,  Ethel  F. 
Rice,  Walter  W. 
Rice,  Esther  S. 
Sexton,  Margaret  E. 
Shepherd,   Sarah   M. 
Smith,  Herbert  P. 
Smith,  Mary  J. 
Smith,  M.  Grace 
Smith,   Ellsworth  J. 
Smith,  Herbert  W. 
Smith,  Martha  J. 
Smith,  Susan  A. 
Smith,  Walter  E. 
Stiles,  Frances  E. 
Stiles,  Ezra  L. 
Stiles,  Ellen  M. 
Stiles,   Frank   L. 
Stiles,   Mary  A. 
Stiles,  William  L. 
Stiles,    Lizzie    E. 
Stiles.    Frederic   H. 
Stiles.  Ellen  G. 
Stiles.   Leila  B. 
Stiles.  Alice  M. 
Stiles.    Edgar  H. 
Stiles,  Leroy  I. 
Stiles,  George  W. 
Stiles,   Mary   E. 
Stiles,  Flora  E. 
Stiles,  Rosabelle  C. 
Thomlinson,   John   A. 
Thomlinson,  Fanny  M. 
Thomlinson,   Matthew  H. 


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Thorpe,  Rufus 
Thorpe,   Emily  L. 
Todd,  Martha  A. 
Todd,  Oliver  S. 
Todd,   Emma  L. 
Todd,  Anna  E. 
Todd,  Lina  F. 
Todd,  Amanda  F. 
Tuttle,  H.  Louise 
Tuttle,  Angelina   M. 

Non-resident. 
Austin,   Mary   E. 
Brockett,  Grace  C. 
Brockett,  Walter  D. 
Brockett,   Frank   L. 
Brockett,  Grace  G. 
Brockett,  Melissa 
Blakeslee,  Catharine  A. 
Blakeslee,    Fannie  J. 
Cheney,   Susan   B. 
Clark,  Herman  D. 
Clark,  Ida  F. 
Divine,  John  H. 
Divine,  Alice  E. 
Devine,   Lucy   A. 
Forbes,   Nathaniel   D.,  Jr. 
Forbes,  Edwin  L. 


Forbes,  Rubert  W. 
Hoadley,  Alice  E. 
Johnson,  Anna  C. 
Laverty,  John  J. 
Laverty,   William 
Lucas,  Le  Etta  J. 
Mansfield,  Caroline  M. 
Marks,  Mabel  S. 
Mansfield,  Celia  A. 
Palmer,  Mary  B. 
Pierpont,  George  R. 
Pierpont,  Anna  B. 
Pierpont,  Anna  I. 
Terrell,  Harriet  A. 
Trowbridge,   May  C. 
Warner,  Helen  S. 

Summary. 

Total     number     of 
communicants,  218 
Resident,  75  males. 

in  females. 


registered 


Total,    186 
Non-resident,  10  males. 
22  females. 

Total,  32 


THE  LADIES'  GUILD  OF  ST.  JOHN'S  CHURCH. 
Organized  October  11,  1877. 
Mrs.  Reuben  Harrison,  President. 
Mrs.  Harriett  R.  Pierpont,  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 


Bailey,   Mrs.  Samuel 
Bassett,  Mrs.  Herbert  I. 
Bigelow,  Miss  Lucy  A. 
Blakslee,  Mrs.   Hobart 
Bradley,   Mrs.   Charles 
Brockett,  Mrs.  Albert 
Clinton,  Mrs.   Isaac 
DuBois,  Mrs.  W.  R. 
Dudley,  Mrs.  Charles 
Gilbert,  Mrs.  Stephen  G 
Goodyear,  Mrs.  E.  D.  S. 


Goodyear,   Miss   Mary 
Hull,  Mrs.  John 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  Isaac  E. 
Mansfield,   Mrs.   Irving 
Pardee,  Mrs.  Louisa 
Pierpont,  Mrs.  Joseph 
Shepherd,  Mrs.  Sarah 
Smith,   Mrs.   Herbert   P. 
Stiles,   Mrs.   Frances 
Stiles,  Mrs.  Ellen  M. 
Thomlinson,  Mrs.  John  A. 


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MEMBERSHIP  OF  DAUGHTERS  OF  THE  KING. 

St.  John's  Church. 
Organized  May  17,  1892. 
Mrs.  William  S.  Stiles,  President. 
Mrs.  William  P.  Leete,  Secretary. 
Mrs.  Herbert  I.  Bassett,  Treasurer. 


Austin,    Mrs.    Ellsworth    A. 
Bigelow,  Miss  Lucy  A. 
Blakeslee,  Mrs.  Florence 
Blakeslee,  Mrs.  John  H. 
Blakeslee,  Mrs.  Whitney 
Bradley,  Mrs.  Charles  W. 
Cheney,   Miss  Susan   B. 
Clinton,  Mrs.  Anson  B. 
Doolittle,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  B. 
Dudley,  Mrs.   Charles 
Dudley,  Mrs.,  Edward  J. 
Gabaree,  Mrs.  Joseph 
Goodyear,  Miss  Anna  L. 
Gilbert,  Mrs.  Stephen  G. 
Harrison,   Mrs.   Reuben 
Hull,  Mrs.  John  S. 


Laverty,  Miss 
Lucas,  Mrs.  Willis 
Lusk,    Mrs.    William 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  Isaac  E. 
Maginnis,   Miss  Caroline 
Pardee,  Mrs.  Edwin  H. 
Pierpont,   Mrs.  Joseph 
Potter,  Mrs.  Hubert  F. 
Redfield,  Mrs.  Ida  L. 
Rice,  Mrs.  Wallace  W. 
Smith,   Mrs.    Herbert   P. 
Stiles,  Mrs.   Ellen  M. 
Stiles,  Mrs.  Frank   L. 
Thomlinson,  Mrs.  John  A. 
Todd,  Mrs.  O.  Sherwood 


CHAPTER  1251,  BROTHERHOOD  OF  SAINT 

ANDREW. 

The  Rev.  Louis  A.  Parsons,  Ex-oMcio. 
Herbert  William  Smith,  Director. 
Harry  Croswell  Beers,  Secretary. 
Edward  Lee  Heaton,  Treasurer. 


Smith,   Walter 
Devine,  Hervey  O. 


Smith,  Ellsworth  Johnson 
Tomlinson,  Matthew  Henry 


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PARISHIONERS    OF   ST.    MARY'S   (CATHOLIC) 
CHURCH,  HAMDEN. 

Organized  1854. 
The  Rev.  William  J.  Dullard,  Pastor. 

RESIDENT  IN   NORTH   HAVEN. 


Barber,  Joseph 
Barber,   Mrs.  Joseph 
Barber,    Miss    Alice 
Barber,  Miss  Ellen 
Barber,    Frederic 
Barber,   Miss  Julia 


Beauchamp,  Joseph 
Beauchamp,  Mrs.  Joseph 
Beauchamp,   Miss   Edna 
Beauchamp,  Frederic 
Beauchamp,  George 
Beauchamp,  Isaac 


Catholic  Church,  Hamden,  Conn. 


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Burke,   Michael  E. 
Burke,  Mrs.  Michael  E. 
Burke,   Mrs.  Michael 
Burke,  Miss  Florence 
Cummings,  Mrs.  Dennis 
Cummings,   John 
Cummings,  Miss  Mary 
Drinkwine,  Arthur 
Drinkwine,  William 
Drinkwine,  Mrs.  William 
Drinkwine,   Michael   E. 
Drinkwine,  Mrs.  Michael  E. 
Drinkwine,  Eli 
Drinkwine,  Mrs.  Eli 
Drinkwine,   Miss   Laura 
Drinkwine,    Luke 
Drinkwine,   Michael 
Drinkwine,  Mrs.  Michael 
Dumond,    Mrs.    Ellen 
Dumond,   Miss  Emma 
Dumond,   Frederic 
Dumond,  Joseph 
Flalligan,  James 
Halligan,   John 
Halligan,   Mrs.  John 
Halligan,   Patrick 
Halligan,  Mrs.   Patrick 
Halligan,   William 
Halligan,   Mrs.   William 
Halloran,   Andrew 
Halloran,  Mrs.  Andrew 
Higgins,  James 


Higgins,  Mrs.  James 
Higgins,  Miss  Annie 
Kennedy,  Daniel 
Kennedy,  Miss  Annie 
Kennedy,  Miss  Margaret 
Lehane,    Mrs.   Jeremiah 
Lehane,  Miss  Nora 
Leonard,  Thomas 
Leonard.   Mrs.  Thomas 
Lynch,  Thomas 
Lynch,  Mrs.  Thomas 
Moran,  Miss  Mary 
Moran,  Thomas 
Moran,   Mrs.  Thomas 
Moran,   Thomas 
Monahan,   Philip 
Monahan,  Mrs.   Philip 
Nielson,  Walford 
Neilson,  Mrs.  Walford 
Rice,   Edward 
Rice,  Mrs.  Edward 
Rice,   Miss   Margaret 
Rowan,  Mrs.  Joseph 
Roarke,    Peter 
Roarke,  Mrs.  Peter 
Roarke,   John 
Roarke,   Peta 
Roarke,  Miss  Kate 
Roarke,  Eliza 
Roarke,   Agnes 
Ward,  Mrs.  Ann 
Ward,  Thomas 


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BUILDING  STATISTICS. 

Compiled  by  Solomon  F.  Linsley,  Contractor. 

The  following  list  comprises    residences    which    have 
erected  m  the  town  during  the  last  half  century. 


been 


District  No.  i 


Clinton,    Merrit, 

•      1853 

Patten.  D.  Walter. 

•      1855 

Bassett,  Lyman, 

.      i860 

Clinton,  Robert  J., 

.      1861 

Blakslee,  Zera  T..  . 

.      1866 

Fowler,   Lewis   I..  . 

.      1867 

Beman,  Wesley, 

.      1867 

Smith,  Alonzo  G.,  . 

.      1869 

Blakeslee,   Hobart, 

.      1871 

Redrield,    Charles, 

.      1872 

Hyde.  L.  Munson, 

•      1875 

Orcutt.  Payson  B.. 

•      1875 

Vibbert,   George   S.. 

1877 

Clinton,  Andrew  G., 

.      1886 

Smith,    Stephen, 

.      1888 

Fallert  Brewing  Co.. 

.      1884 

Sherwood,  Clarence, 

1898 

Distrct  No. 

2 

Corf,  Henry  P., 

•      1851 

McGann,  Edward,  . 

1852 

Austin,   Andrew   F., 

1857 

Brockett,  John   E., 

1858 

Palmer,   George,     . 

1859 

Readings,  George,  . 

1859 

Condon,   Edward,   . 

i860 

Olsen,    Per   A.. 

1863 

Delamater,  Louis,  . 

1867 

Jacobs,   C.   M.,  .     . 

1869 

Marks,    Nathan    H.. 

1872 

Barnes.    Robert    N.. 

1876 

Ball,   Edwin.  .     .     . 

1876 

Bailey,    Sarah,    .     .     . 

1879 

Barnes,  Lucia  B..  . 

1882 

Gerwig,  George,      .     . 

1882 

Kehoe,    Maria,    .     .     . 

1889 

Olson,  John  A 

Munson,  George,  .  .  . 
Brockett,  Albert  B.,  .  . 
Robinson,  George,      .     . 

District  No.  3. 

Sackett,  Samuel  Mrs.,     . 
Hemingway,  Merwin, 
Brockett.    Luzerne   A.,    . 
Foote,    Henry,    .... 


1893 
1894 
1897 
1898 


1857 
1857 
1857 
i860 


Lieut.  Solomon   F.  Linsley. 

Veteran  of  the  Civil  War. 
Member  Post  17,  G.  A.  R. 
Builder  and  Contractor. 
Died  March  13,  1901. 


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Saxton,    Charles,     . 
Culver,   John,      .     . 
Frost,    J.    Henry,    . 
Robinson,   Julia, 
Shea,  James   O.,     . 
Robinson,   Willard, 
Brocksieper,  F.  W.. 
Potter,   Hubert  F., 
Foote,    Frank,    .     . 
Babb,    Frederic, 
Cody,  Mrs.  (2), 
Hemingway,    Louis, 
Barnes,  George, 
Tucker,   Dennis  W.. 
Uhl,  Louis,     .     .     . 
Palmer,   John    F., 
Bigelow,   Irving, 
Talmadge,   George   H 
Hoadley,  John,  .     . 
Moulthrop,  Sherman  (heirs), 
Eaton  Brothers, 
Davis,   Richard, 


1861 

Lehr,   Gottfried, 

1873 

1861 

Schmidt,  Caroline, 

1873 

1861 

Barnes,  Mary  R.,  . 

1874 

1866 

Payne,    Charles, 

1875 

1867 

Scott,  Frances,  . 

1875 

1867 

Feldstein,  Abram, 

1876 

1868 

Kober,  George, 

1876 

1869 

Feldstein,  Morris, 

1876 

1869 

Frost,   Irving,     . 

1876 

1869 

Scherb,   Adam,   . 

1876 

1870 

Uhl,    Adam,    .     . 

1877 

1870 

Bigelow,   Irving, 

1877 

1870 

Brown,   Phebe,   . 

1878 

1871 

Schneider,    Edwarc 

, 

1879 

1872 

Schultz,  Julius,   . 

1880 

1872 

Foote,  Judson,   . 

1882 

1872 

Fitch,    Mrs.,    .     . 

1883 

1872 

Larkins,  A.  J.,   . 

1885 

1872 

Schauer,    Frederic, 

1887 

1872 

Post  Office  Building, 

1888 

1872 

"The  Hermitage,"  . 

1889 

1873 

Frost,  John,  .     . 

1889 

Residence  of  Robekt  N.  Barnes. 


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Residence  of  Charles  H.  Thorpe. 


Residence  of  Romanta  T.  Linslev, 


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Brocksieper,   F.   W..   .     . 

1889 

Robinson,   Nellie,   .     .     . 

1890 

Brockett,  Maria  L.,    .     . 

1892 

Hemingway,    Edgar, 

1894 

Hemingway,  Robert,  .     . 

1894 

"The   Summerdale,"    .     . 

189S 

Wisner,    Henry,      .     .     . 

189S 

Shea,  James   O.,     .     .     . 

1895 

Frost,  Clarence  N.,     .     . 

1896 

Potter,    H.    R,    .     .     .     . 

1896 

Judd,    Benise    F.,    .     .     . 

1896 

Pardee,  Edwin  H.,      .     . 

1897 

Hemingway,   Frank,   .     . 

1898 

Beach,  Wilbur  E 

1898 

Anderson,    J.    P.,    .     .     . 

1898 

Foote,   Sybil  A 

1898 

Montowese  Brick  Co.,  . 

1900 

Storrs,    Hector   W.,    .     . 

1900 

District  No.  4. 

Lord,  Dr.  Austin,  .     .     . 

1851 

Dickerman,  William  E., 

1851 

Munson,    James 

St.  John's  Church  Rectory, 
Blakeslee,  Henry  M., 
Hine,  Nelson  W.,  . 
Bradley,  Rowe  S.    (heirs) 
Carlson,    Alfred, 
Spencer,  E.  A.,  . 
Smith,   Herbert  P. 
Bailey,    Samuel, 
Barnard,   James    F 
Heaton,    Julius    W 
Frost,  Alva,   .     . 
Duraond,   Mrs.   Ellen, 
Linsley,   Romanta  T., 
Stiles,  Frank  L.,     .     . 
Goodyear,  Dr.  R.  B.,  . 
Robinson,    Henry    H., 
Thorpe,  Sheldon  B.,  . 
Brockett,   Frederic   H., 
Thorpe,  Rufus,  .     .     . 
Stiles,  George  W.,  .     . 
Higgins,    James,     .     . 


1853 

18. 

1856 

1856 

1858 

i860 

i860 

i860 

i860 

1866 

1869 

1870 

1870 

1870 

1870 

187 1 

1871 

1871 

1871 

1872 

1872 

1872 


Photo  by  Thorpe. 


Residence  of  Sheldon  B.  Thorpe. 


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Photo  by  Heaton.  RESIDENCE   OF    SOLOMON    F.    LlNSLEY. 


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Residence  of  Gen.   E.  D.  S.  Goodyear. 


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NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


Todd,   Mrs.    Louisa,   . 
Page,  Mrs.  Augustus, 
Burke,    Michael,     . 
Fowler,    Maltby, 
Smith,    H.    P.,    .     . 
Smith,    Mrs.    Caroline 
Bradley,  Charles  W., 
Forent,  Joseph,  .     . 
Blakeslee,   Julius,    . 
Munson,   L.   M.,     . 
Thorpe,  Frank  S.,  . 
Thorpe,  Charles  H., 
Keigwin,   Henry   C, 
Pardee,  George  W.. 
Halligan,   Patrick, 
Linsley,    Solomon    F 
Hyde,  Albert  A.,   . 
Dumond,  Mrs.  Ellen, 
Avigni,    Andrew,     . 
Drinkwine,  Eli,  .     . 
Burke,    Michael    E., 
Rice,   Edward,    .     . 


1872  Blakeslee,  Arthur  E.,      .     .  1890 

1872  Avigni,    Paolo,        ....  1890 

1873  Leete,   William    P.,     .     .     .  1892 

1873  Leete,    Mrs.    Mary,     .     .     .  1892 

1874  Todd,    Mrs.   Amanda,     .     .  1892 

1875  Thorpe,  Henry  L.,      ...  1893 

1875  Goodyear,  Gen.  E.  D.  S.,  .  1893 

1876  Stiles,  William  S.,  ...  1893 
1876  Cong.  Church  Parsonage,  .  1894 
1876  Vibbert,  Albert  N.,  .  .  1895 
1876  Beauchamp,  Joseph,  .  .  .  1896 
1878  Neilson,  Walford,  .  .  .  1896 
1878  Squires,    Frank    N.,    .     .     .  1896 

1883  Reise,  Caroline,  ....  1897 
1885  Gabarre,    Joseph 1897 

1884  Beers,    Harry   C 1898 

1888  Munson,  Ezra  G 1898 

1885  Halligan,  William,      .     .     .  1898 

1888  Dickerman,    William    E.,    .  1900 

1889  Stiles,  Frank  L.,  .  .  .  .  1900 
1889  Stiles  Brick  Co.,  The  (10), 

1889  1874- 1900 


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Residence  of  Frank  L.  Stiles. 


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Photo  by  Heatoii. 


Residence  ok  William  P.  Leete. 


Photo  by  Gillette. 


Residence  of  Merton  Gillette. 


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District  No.  6. 

Howarth,  Alfred  A.,  .     . 

1872 

Foster,   Emanuel  P.,  .     . 

1851 

Lynch,  Thomas,     .     .     . 

1872 

Bradley,   Andrew,  .     .     . 

1868 

Mansfield,   Isaac   E.,   .     . 

1875 

Jacobs,   Frederic  E.,  .     . 

1S70 

Smith,    Charles    B.,      .     . 

1876 

Hitchcock,   A.   H.,      .     . 

1870 

Bassett,   Herbert   I.,   .     . 

1879 

Monahan,  Philip,    .     . 

1872 

Mansfield,  Edwin  L., 

1882 

Anderson,    Mr 

1870 

Brockett,   Frederic   H.,   . 

1885 

Buckingham,   Henry. 

1889 

Lehane,   Jeremiah,       .     . 

1887 

Barker,  David  O.,       .     . 

1899 

Brockett,  Ernest  R.,  .     . 

1889 

Goodsell,  Wilson  E.,  .     . 

1890 

District  No.  7. 

Shepherd,   Mrs.   Sarah,   . 

1890 

Smith,    James    E.,        .     . 

1S56 

Thomlinson,    J.    A.,    .     . 

1891 

Kennedy,   Daniel,   .     .     . 

i860 

Mansfield,  William   L.,  . 

1893 

Smith,  George  W.  (estate) 

,     1861 

Whitehead,    Levi,    .     .     . 

1894 

Tuttle,   Amos    (estate),   . 

1863 

Blakeslee,  Frederic  W.,  . 

1895 

Stiles,    Frank    L 

1807 

Dudley,    Edward   J.,   .     . 

1896 

Gillette,    Merton,    .     .     . 

1867 

Dudley,  Charles  W.,  .     . 

1896 

Smith    Brothers,     .     .     . 

1868 

Stiles,    Frank    L 

1897 

Lane,    Alfred    A 

1869 

Marks,    Marcus    D.,    .     . 

1898 

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District  No 

.  8 

Terrell,    W 

l890 

Cooper.    Levi   J.,     . 

.    .    .     r8si 

Bruce,  James, 

.           1891 

Beach.  Joel   P..  .     . 

■     1854 

Reis,  Crevye,      .     . 

•           1893 

Van   Doran,   William 

•     185/ 

Jephson,   L 

.           1894 

Vittorio,  James, 

1857 

Oberlin,  Gustave,    . 

.          1895 

Downs,  A.   L.,  .     . 

•     1857 

Bassett,  Charles, 

I896 

Shares.    Daniel    W., 

1 86 1 

Spencer,  B.   F.,  .     . 

1896 

Shares,    Horace    P.. 

1865 

Neilson,  Milo,     .     . 

1896 

Bailey.    Charles, 

1869 

Vogel,    William, 

I896 

Todd,    Sereno,    .     . 

1 87 1 

Buell,    C 

1897 

Stiles,    Frank    L.,    . 

1872 

Gnernot,    A.,        .     . 

I898 

Ives.  George  W.   &  ! 

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1872 

Benedict, , 

I898 

Abell,   Oliver,     .     . 

1880 

Peterson,    Christine, 

1898 

Coon,    William, 

1 88 1 

Iberson,  Jeno  C,  . 

I89S 

Collett,   Thomas,     . 

188 1 

Gibbard,   T 

1898 

Austin,    F.    E.,   .     . 

1882 

Downs,    George   T., 

1899 

Wooding,    Milo, 

1882 

Thompson.  Soren, 

1899 

Jensen,  J.   C,      .     . 

1883 

Duckert,   Antons,   . 

1899 

Bedell,    S 

1884 

Cooper,  Mary  F.,  .     . 

1899 

Hurlburt,    E.    L.,    .     . 

1885 

Mastrorio,   Dominick, 

1900 

Wright,   Charles,     .     . 

1887 

Peterson,  Caroline, 

1900 

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THE   BRADLEY   LIBRARY. 

Catalogue,  3,000  volumes. 

The  Rev.  William  G.  Lathrop,  President. 

Mrs.  Herbert  P.  Smith,  Secretary. 

Joseph  Pierpont,  Treasurer. 

Miss  Clara  Bradley,  Librarian. 

This  institution  was  incorporated  by  the  General  Assembly 
of  Connecticut  at  the  January  session,  1884.  It  derived  its  exist- 
ence from  the  munificence  of  the  Hon.  Silas  Leverius  Bradley, 
a  citizen  of  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  who  devised  the  sum  of  one  thousand 
dollars  "to  be  used  in  the  founding  of  a  library  association  in  my 
native  town  of  North  Haven,  Conn."  Mr.  Bradley  died  April  17, 
1883.  A  public  meeting  of  the  citizens  was  called  September  5, 
same  year,  to  take  action  upon  this  bequest,  at  which  time  the 


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Memorial  Hall. 


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following'  gentlemen  were  chosen  to  become  the  incorporators  of 
the  Bradley  Library  Association: 

The  Rev.  William  Lusk,  Jr.  Maltby   Fowler. 

The  Rev.  William  T.  Reynolds.     Sheldon   B.  Thorpe. 
The  Rev.  Emerson  S.  Hill.  Dr.   Benjamin  M.   Page. 

Edward  L.  LinsLey. 

The  work  of  organization  began  immediately,  and  the  library 
was  opened  to  the  public  at  the  residence  of  Dr.  Austin  Lord,  on 


Miss  Clara  E.  Bradley. 

Librarian  of  the  Bradley  Library. 

October  2,  1884.  It  remained  at  that  place  until  January  1,  1887, 
when  it  was  transferred  to  quarters  provided  free  by  the  town  in 
Memorial  Hall. 

Upon  the  death  of  Mrs.  Jane  L.  Bradley,  in  1891  (widow  cf 
the  Hon.  Silas  L.  Bradley),  the  library  received  a  second  legacy 
of  one  thousand  dollars,  and  a  valuable  donation  of  books.  Dur- 
ing all  the  above  period  and  up  to  October,  1893,  this  institution 
had  been  mainly  supported  by  membership  fees,  but  at  the  annual 
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town  meeting,  in  the  latter  year,  it  was  voted  that  upon  condition 
of  its  being  made  free  to  the  public,  a  grant  of  one  hundred 
fifty  dollars  would  be  given  it,  with  the  implied  understanding 
that  so  long  as  it  continued  free,  the  town  would  contribute  to 


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Isaac  L.  Stiles. 

Warden  St.  John's  Church. 

Selectman. 

Member  General  Assembly. 

Died  July  i,  1895. 

its  support.  This  provision,  so  much  desired,  the  directors  has- 
tened to  comply  with,  and  on  October  6,  1893,  it  was  to  all  intents 
and  purposes  declared  a  free  public  library.  So  satisfactory  did 
this  change  prove,  that  at  the  annual  town  meeting,  in  1894,  the 
grant  was  raised  to  two  hundred  dollars. 


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The  library  has  received  further  bequests  of  one  thousand 
dollars  each  from  the  Hon.  Isaac  L.  Stiles,  of  North  Haven, 
Conn.,  and  Dr.  Judson  B.  Andrews,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 


Dr.  Judson  B.  Andrews. 


Born  North  Haven  April  25,  1834. 

Graduated  from  Yale  College  1855. 

Member  of  Col.  Ellsworth's  Zouaves  1861. 

Enlisted  77th  New  York  Vols,  and  made  Cap- 
tain 1861. 

Fought  under  McClellan  in  the  Peninsular 
Campaign. 

Resigned  Commission  1862. 

Completed  Medical  studies, Yale  College,  1863. 


Enlisted  19th  Connecticut  Vols,  and  made  As- 
sistant Surgeon  1863. 

Mustered  out  of  Service  1865. 

Superintendent  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  State  Hospital 
1880. 

330  Mason. 

Died  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  August  3,  1894. 

(See  24th  Report  Buffalo  Hospital,  and  Ameri- 
can Journal  of  Insanity,  July,  1892. 


The  patronage  is  good.     It  is  open  Tuesday  and  Saturday, 


afternoon  and  evening. 


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MONTOWESE   LITERARY  SOCIETY 


Organized  September  20,  1883, 

Mrs.  Theophilus  Eaton,  President. 
Miss  Cora  Eaton,  Secretary. 
Albert  H.  Zuber,  Treasurer. 


Barnes,  Miss   Flora 
Beach,  Harry  W. 
Beach,   Howard 
Beach,  Miss  Ada 
Beach,  Miss  Eva 
Bottome,   Frank  W. 
Bottome,  Mark  S. 
Button,  Arthur 
Cooper,  George  H. 
Cooper,  Mrs.  George  H. 
Cooper,   Miss  Marilla 
Eaton,   Robert  O. 
Eaton,  Mrs.   Robert  O. 
Eaton,   Theophilus 
Edwards,   Oliver 
Hemingway,  Miss  Genevieve 
Jackson,  The  Rev.  Charles  W. 
Judd,  Nelson 
Judd,  Ross  B. 
Meyer,  Fulbert  G. 


Pardee,  Mrs.   Edwin  H. 
Payne,  Herbert 
Payne,  Miss  Mary 
Robinson,  Miss  Nellie 
Schneider,  Alex. 
Schneider,  Miss  Martha 
Shea,  J.   Edmond 
Shea,  Mrs.  J.   Edmond 
Smith,  Miss  Ruth 
Storrs,   Mrs.    Irving   H. 
Talmadge,  Miss  Bertha  D. 
Talmadge,  Miss  Edith 
Uhl,  Miss  Aurora 
Uhl,  Miss  Edith 
Uhl,    Miss   Augusta 
Uhl,   Miss   Elizabeth 
Uhl,   Louis 
Zuber,  Miss  Amanda 
Zuber,  Ernest 
Zuber,  Frank 


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WOMAN'S  CHRISTIAN   TEMPERANCE    UNION. 

Mrs.  Charles  N.  Turner,  President. 
Mrs.  Payson  B.  Orcutt,  Secretary. 
Mrs.  Frederic  H.  Brockett,  Treasurer. 


Baldwin,  Miss  Adella 
Bannell,  Miss  Anna 
Bannell,  Mrs.  Samuel 
Bassett,   Mrs.   Aaron 
Blakeslee,   Mrs.   Frederic  W. 
Blakeslee,   Mrs.    Zera  T. 
Bower,  Mrs.  Stephen  H. 
Bradley,  Mrs.  Frederic  C. 
Doolittle,  Mrs.  Mary  A.   B. 
Dunham,  Mrs.  John  J. 
Eliot,  Miss  Mary  W. 
Elliott,   Mrs.  Whitney 
Fowler,  Mrs.  Willoughby 
Howarth,  Mrs.  Alfred  A. 
Howarth,  Miss  Gertrude  L. 
Ives,  Mrs.  Sylvia  A. 
Lathrop,  Mrs.  William  G. 
Mansfield,    Mrs.    Frederic   L. 


Maynard.    Miss   Nellie 
Morse,   Mrs.   Henry  H. 
Shepherd,  Mrs.  Roswell  J. 
Squires,   Mrs.   Cornelia 
Stevens,  Mrs.  Mariette 
Stevens,  Mrs.  William  W. 
Sweet,  Mrs.  Herbert  G. 
Thorpe,  Mrs.   Franklin  S. 
Thorpe,   Miss  Harriett 
Todd,  Mrs.  George  B. 
Todd,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Tuttle,  Miss  Kate  L. 
Vibbert,  Mrs.  Albert  N. 
Vibbert,  Mrs.   George  S. 
Warner,  Mrs.  Edmund  C. 
Warner,   Miss   L.  Jane 
West,  Miss  Cornelia  B. 


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QUINNIPIAC  COUNCIL,  No.  77,  O.  U.  A.  M. 

M ember ship,  January  I,  ipoi. 

Charles  W.  Dudley,  Councillor. 
Roswell  J.  Shepherd,  Secretary. 
Joseph  Pierpont,  Treasurer. 
Marcus  D.  Marks,  Inductor. 
Edmund  J.  Dudley,  Examiner. 


Abel,  E.  Stiles 
Bassett,   Lorenzo   N. 
Bradley,  Charles  W. 
Blakeslee,  Wilbur  D. 
Blakeslee,  Zerah  T. 
Brownell,  Charles  A. 
Clinton,   Edwin  J. 
Crowell,   Franklin   N. 
Cheney,  Harry  P. 
Cade,  Charles  T. 
Dickerman,  William  E. 
Fowler,  Lewis  I. 
Gabaree,  Joseph 
Hull,  John  S. 
Hull,  Henry  A. 
Keigwin,  Henry  C. 
Laverty,  J.  J. 


Laverty,   William 
Linsley,  Solomon   F. 
Leete,  William  P. 
Leete,   George  H. 
Palmer,   Elizur  H. 
Robinson,  Henry  H. 
Rose,  Charles  L. 
Smith,   Herbert  P. 
Stiles,  Vernon   C. 
Stiles,  William  S. 
Stevens,  Charles  T. 
Thorpe,  Rufus 
Todd,  O.   Sherwood 
Vandoran,  Benjamin  S. 
Vining,   Frank  A. 
Terrell,  Henry  C. 
Munson,  Willard  L. 


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NORTH  HAVEN  LODGE,  No.  6i,  A.  O.  U.  W. 


Organized  1893. 


Membership,  January  1,  igoi. 

Michael  E.  Burke,  Past  Master  Workman. 

Walter  M.  Sexton,  Master  Workman. 

Oscar  L   Smith,  Foreman. 

John  S.  Hull,  Overseer. 

Marcus  D.  Marks,  Recorder. 

Frederic  H.  Brockett.  Receiver. 

Henry  C.  Ketgwin,  Financier. 


Ailing,  Charles  E. 
Avigne,   Andrew 
Barber,  Joseph 
Barcella,  Baptisto 
Barnes,  George  F. 
Bartek,  John 
Beauchamp,  Joseph 
Blakeslee,  Fred  W. 
Blakeslee,  John   H. 
Blakeslee,  Whitney  T. 
Blakeslee,  Wilbur  D. 
Brewster,  William  J. 
Bruce,  Edward 
Bruce,  James 
Bruce,  Lawrence 
Burns,   David 
Case,    George   C. 
Cheney,   Harry   P. 
Clinton,  Anson  B. 
Clinton,  David  L. 
Clinton,  Evelyn  B. 
Clinton,  Frederick   L. 
Cook,   Patrick 
Condon,  Michael 
Conklin,   Frank   L. 


Michael  E.  Bukke. 


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Connley,   John    H. 
Corf,   Henry  F. 
Cummings,  John  P. 
Daggett,  Henry  C. 
Darrigan,  Patrick  H. 
Davis.   Frank   L. 
Deary,   Lewis  N. 
Decarli,   Lewis 
Dickerman,   William   E. 
Drinkwine,   Michael 
Dudley,  Charles  W. 
Dudley,  Edmund  J. 
Dumond,  William  H. 
Eaton,  Robert  O. 
Eaton,   Theophilus 
Ehle,  Ernest  E. 
Gabaree,  Joseph  J. 
Gallivan,   Daniel   P. 
Gerwig,  George  H. 
Gillette,  Merton  A. 
Harrison,  George  N. 
Harrison,   Reuben 
Hotchkiss,  Delano  S. 
Hyde,  Albert  A. 
Hyde,  Lyman  M. 
Jiuliani,    John 
Kanningiesser,  Jacob 
Keane,  John 
Larkins,  William   O. 
Lathrop,  William    G. 
Leete,  William  P. 
Maltby,    Benjamin   J. 
Mansfield,  Frederick  L. 
Mansfield,  Zenas  W. 
McCabe,    Patrick 


McGinnis,  John  J. 
McKinnon,  Norman 
Merz,  George  J. 
Moran,  Thomas 
Morse,  Herbert  H. 
Murray,   Edward 
Nelson,  Walfrid 
Orcutt,   Payson   B. 
O'Shea,  James  E. 
Palmer,   Elizur   H. 
Patten,   D.   Walter 
Plumley,  William  H. 
Potter,    Hubert    F. 
Pritchard,  William 
Redfield,  Walter  M. 
Richards,   Eugene 
Rowan,  Joseph 
Roberge,   George 
Smith,  Charles  B. 
Smith,  Frank  L. 
Stevens,    Ellsworth 
Schoepfer,   Christian  G. 
Thomlinson,  John  A. 
Thorpe,  Henry  L. 
Todd,  John  H. 
Todd,    George   H. 
Tucker,  William  H. 
Vibbert,  Albert  N. 
Vibbert,  George  S. 
Vining,   Frank  A. 
Weinburg,   Fritz 
White,    George 
Wilson,  Joseph 
Wilson,   William 
Wustrock,   Herman 


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MEMBERSHIP  OF  THE   CITIZENS'   BENEFIT 

ASSOCIATION. 

Organized  March  18,  1899. 

Marcus  D.  Marks,  President 
Arthur   B.  Thorpe,  Secretary. 
Charles  W.  Dudley,  Treasurer. 


Barcella,   Battisto 
Bassett,  Benjamin  S. 
Bassett,  Herbert  I. 
Beers,  Harry  C. 
Blakeslee,  Arthur  A. 
Blakeslee,   Frederic  W. 
Blakeslee.  John  H. 
Blakeslee,  Wilbur  D. 
Bradley,   Homer   S. 
Brockett,  Frederic  H. 
Cade,  Charles  F. 
Clinton,  Evelyn  B. 
Clinton,   Robert  J. 
Dickerman,  William  E. 


Dudley,   Edmund  J. 
Fowler,  Willoughby  E. 
Gabaree,  Joseph  J. 
Halloran,   Andrew 
Hyde,  Albert  A. 
Hyde,    Everett    B. 
Harrison.    Reuben 
Harrison,  Elizur  H. 
Keigwin,  Henry  C. 
Eeete,  William  P. 
Leete,   George  H. 
Leonard,    Thomas 
Mansfield,  Zenas  W. 
McGinnis,  John  J. 


Arthur  D.  Thorpe. 

Electrician  New  England  Engineering  Co. 


Marcus  D.  Marks. 

Chairman  Republican  Town  Committee. 


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John  F.  Reynolds. 


McKinnon,   Norman 
Merz,   George  J. 
North,    Frank    B. 
Pierpont,  Joseph 
Reynolds,   John    F. 
Roarke,  John  F. 
Rose,   Willis   E. 
Rowan,   Joseph 
Shepherd,  Roswell  J. 
Sherwood,  Clarence  B. 
Smith,  Alex.   B. 
Smith,  Charles  B. 
Smith,  Oscar  L. 
Stevens,   Edwin   B. 
Stevens,  William  W. 
Stiles,  William  S. 
Squires,  Frank  C. 
Sweet,  Herbert  G. 
Thomlinson,  John  A. 
Todd,  George  H. 
Todd,  John  H. 
Todd,  William  H. 
Vibbert,  Stephen  S. 


Cemetery. 


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PATRONS   OF   HUSBANDRY. 


Grange  No.  35. 


Organized  1885. 


Charles  N.  Turner,  Master.       Mrs.  L.  Peet  Tuttle,  Lecturer. 
Charles  H.  Thorpe,  Secretary.     Henry  D.  Todd,   Treasurer. 

Names  included  within  brace  are  those  of  husband  and  wife. 
Names  in  italics  indicate  maiden  name  of  woman. 


Charles  N.  Turner. 

Master  Grange  No   35,  P.  of  H. 

Allen,  D.  Frederick 

Allen,  Hobart  B. 

Bailey,  Walter  M.      \ 

Bailey,  Sarah  Smith  ) 

Ball,  Edwin  L.  I 

Ball,  Catherine  J.   Chipmcui  \ 

Bannell,  Miss  Anna  M. 


Barker,  Mrs   David  O. 
Barnard,  Miss  Bertha  J. 
Barnard,  James  F.       | 
Barnard,  Alice  Cark  ) 
Barnard,  James  H. 


Henry  D.  Todd. 

Veteran  of  the  Civil  War. 
Member  G.  A.  R. 
Ex-Selectman  and  Town  Agent. 


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Barnes,  Miss  L.  Genevieve 
Barnes,  Robert  N.      ) 
Barnes,  Ella  Shares  ) 
Bassett,  Benjamin  S.  | 

Bassett,  Harriett  Bannell) 
Bassett,  Jared  B. 
Beach.  Miss  Bessie  L. 
Beach,  John  H. 
Beers,  Harry  C. 
Bigelow,  Miss  Glenna  M. 
Bigelow,  Miss  Grace  L. 
Bishop,  Edwin 
Bishop,  Erus 

Bishop,  Joseph  E.  | 

Bishop,  Margaret  Stuart  S 
Bishop,  Miss  Lucy  M. 
Bishop,  Walter  H.  | 

Bishop,  Kittie  Sturges) 
Blakeslee,  Arthur  A.    ) 
Blakeslee,   Flora  Foot  S 
Blakeslee,  Arthur  C. 
Blakeslee,  George  D. 
Blakeslee,  George  N. 
Blakeslee,  Hobart  ) 

Blakeslee,   Elenora  Allen  ) 
Blakeslee,  Mrs.  John  H. 
Blakeslee,  Miss  Ruby  A. 
Blakeslee,  Wilbur  D.  | 

Blakeslee,  Alice  MaynardS 
Blakeslee,  Zera  T.  ) 

Blakeslee,  Eliza  Tuttle  ) 
Bormann,  Miss  Ottillie  M. 
Bradley,  Mrs.  Charles  W. 
Brockett,  Albert  B.  } 

Brockett,   Edith   Mansfield) 
Brockett,  Ernest  R.  ) 

Brockett,  Elizabeth  Sanford  ) 
Brockett,  Frederic  H  | 

Brockett,  Charlotte  Bishop  ) 
Brockett,  Hobart  J. 
Brockett,  Mrs.  John  E. 
Brockett,  Luzerne  A, 
Brockett,  Miss  G.  May 
Brockett,  Myron  R. 
Brooker,  Alfred  W.        ) 
Brooker,  Inez  Clinton  ) 
Bruce,  Edward  B. 


\ur  ) 


Bruce.  Lawrence  W. 
Bunnell,  Russell  R. 
Button,  Arthur 
Carlson,  Alfred  J 

Carlson,  Georgianna  01  sen  ) 
Carlson,  A.  Herbert 
Carlson,  Harold 
Clark,  Mrs.  Charles 
Clinton,  Andrew  D.      ) 
Clinton,  Lucy  Bishop  ) 
Clinton,  Anson  B.       ) 
Clinton,  Mary  Stiles  ) 
Clinton,  Bessie  E. 
Clinton,  Burton  D. 
Clinton,  D.  Lawrence       ) 
Clinton,  Frances  VibbertS 
Clinton,  Edwin  J. 
Clinton,  Eliza   Art  hi 
Clinton,  Elbert 
Clinton,  Elizur  Z.  ) 

Clinton,  Ella  Palmer  ) 
Clinton,  Evelyn  B.  ) 

Clinton,  Florence  Redfield  ) 
Clinton,  Friend  ) 

Clinton,  Helen  Clark  ) 
Clinton,  H.  Wilson 
Clinton,  Isaac  B.  [ 

Clinton,  Grace  Allen) 
Clinton,  Lovell  E. 
Clinton,  Robert  J.  ) 

Clinton,  Mathilda  Olsen  f 
Corf,  Henry  F.  ) 

Corf,  Stella  Crowell  S 
Cook,  George  S. 
Culver,  Benjamin  A. 
Culver,  Vivian  W. 
Cummings,  John  T. 
Dickerman,  Miss  Grace  L. 
Dickerman,  Mrs.  William  E 
Eaton,  Miss  Cora  A. 
Eaton,  Robert  O.  / 

Eaton,  Carrie   Granniss  S 
Eaton,  Theophilus  ) 

Eaton,  Bertha  Robinson  ) 
Frost,  Mrs.  Clarence  N. 
Frost,  G.  Irving 


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Frost,  John  P.  | 

Frost,  Julia    Gra/inissS 
Goodsell,  Wilson  E.  | 

Goodsell,   Fannie   Beach  S 
Goodyear,  Miss  Ethel  A. 
Goodyear,  Dr.  Robert  B.        / 
Goodyear,    Ellen   Hotchkiss  S 
Harrison,  Burdette 
Harrison,  Elizur  H. 
Harrison,  Harold  S. 
Harrison,  John  C. 
Heaton,  Edward  L. 
Heaton,  James 

Hemingway,  Frank  W.  ) 

Hemingway,  Elfrida  Heaton  ) 
Hemingway,  Miss  Genevieve 
Hemingway,  Miss  Laura  J. 
Hull,  Edward  P.  ) 
Hull,  Carrie  Rolf  \ 
Hull,  Henry  A. 
Hull,  Miss  Minnie  Delight 
Humiston,  Myron  W.      ) 
Humiston,  Jessie  Lane  ) 
Jacobs,  Frederic  E. 
Jacobs,  Miss  Jane  A. 
Jacobs,  Miss  Susan  C. 
Jones,  Daniel  A. 
Keigwin,  Clarence  H. 
Keigwin,  Henry  C. 
Keigwin,  Herbert  A. 
Kennedy,  Daniel 
Lane,  Alfred  A. 
Lane,  Wilbur  A.       } 
Lane,  Belle  Tut  tie  S 
Larkins,  William  O.  ) 

Larkins,  Emma  Hubbell ) 
Leete,  Miss  Harriett  L. 
Mansfield,  Edwin  S. 
Mansfield,  Wilford  B. 
Marks,  Marcus  D.  i 

Marks,  Sylvia  Shepherd  \ 
Marks,  Nathan  H.  ) 

Marks,   Martha   Cooper  ) 
Marks,  William  H. 
Morse,  Henry  C. 


Munson,  Frederic  B.  / 
Munson,  Sarah  Mills  S 
North,  Frank  B.  ) 

North,  Meta  Unger  S 
Olson,  John  W. 
Olson,  Per.  A.  / 

Olson,  Hannah  Anderson  » 
Orcutt,  Payson  B. 
Palmer,  Elizur  H.  / 

Palmer,  Sarah   Robinson  » 
Pardee,  William  E. 
Patten,  D.  Walter  | 

Patten,  Erminie  Emley  ) 
Potter,  Hubert  F.  ) 

Potter,  Catherine   Brockett  > 
Potter,  Walter  F. 
Richardson,  Ernest  S. 
Richardson,  Ervin  H. 
Roarke,  John  F. 
Roarke,  Miss  Agnes  B. 
Schneider,  Miss  Martha 
Sexton,  Mrs.  Walter  M. 
Shepherd,  Mrs.  Franklin  J. 
Sherman,  Charles  G.  ) 

Sherman,  Adelia  Excanbrock  \ 
Sherman,  Guy  A. 
Smith,  Alexander  B.     ) 
Smith,  Ada  Goodyear  J 
Smith,  Mrs.  Emanuel 
Smith,  Frank  L.  ) 

Smith,  Martha  Culver  ) 
Smith,  Herbert  P.         J 
Smith,  Mary  Johnson  ) 
Smith,  Herbert  W. 
Smith,  Miss  M    Grace 
Smith,  Miss  Martha  J. 
Smith,  Robert  W.  > 

Smith,  Elizabeth  Stiles) 
Smith,  Stephen  A.       » 
Smith,  Susan  Bishop  \ 
Spencer,  Mrs.  Elizur  A. 
Stevens,  William  W.  ) 

Stevens,  Blanche  Clinton  \ 
Stiles,  Mrs.  George  W. 
Stiles,  Miss  Clifford  R. 
Stiles,  Vernon  C. 


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Thorpe,  Alfred  L. 
Thorpe,  Mrs.  Franklin  S. 
Thorpe,  Miss  Harriet  L. 
Thorpe,  Miss  Ruby  V. 
Thorpe,  Walter  F. 
Todd,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Gill 
Todd,  George  H. 
Todd,  Mrs.  Henry  D. 
Todd,  John  H. 
Todd,  Mrs.  Mary  Wiley 
Todd,  William  H. 
Tucker,  George 
Turner,  Mrs.  Charles  N. 
Tuttle,  Burdette  R. 


Tuttle.  Edwin 

Tuttle,  Miss  Ina  G. 

Tuttle,  Julian  W.  \ 

Tuttle,  Charlotte  Blakeslee  ) 

Tuttle,  Miss  Kate  L. 

Tuttle,  L   Peet 

Warner,  Edmund  C.  j 

Warner,  Vestina  Wooding  ) 

Warner,  Frederic  A. 

Warner,  Miss  Jane 

Warner,  Wilson  H 

Wiley,  John 

Wooding,  Leonard  B. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH     CENTURY.  Ill 


Herbert  Barnes. 

Fair  Haven,  Conn. 


E.   Henry  Barnes. 

New  Haven,  Conn. 


Louis  R.  Hemingway. 


Dr.  E.  H.  Bidwell. 

Practicing  Physician. 


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NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


FREE   AND   ACCEPTED   MASONS. 

Resident. 

January  I,  1901. 

Compiled  by  Gen.  E.  D.  S.  Goodyear. 


Abell,  Oliver, 
Bailey,  Samuel, 
Ball,  Edwin  L., 
Bassett,  Jared  B., 
Blakeslee,  John  H., 
Blakeslee,  Whitney  T., 
Blakeslee,  Frederic  W., 
Bradley  Homer  S., 
Clinton,  Anson  B., 
Clinton,  David  L., 
Clinton,  Frederic  L., 
Collett,  Thomas, 
Dickerman,  William  E., 
Eaton,  Robert  O., 
Eaton,  Theophilus, 
Foote,  Frank  W., 
Gillette,  Merton, 
Goodyear,  Ellsworth  D. 
Goodyear,  Robert  B., 
Harrison,  Reuben, 
Heaton,  Charles, 
Heaton,  Julius  W., 
Hemingway,  Louis  R., 
Hull,  Porter  G., 
Kipp,  William, 
Lathrop,  William  G., 
Lord,  Austin, 
Lusk,  William, 
Marks,  Nathan  H., 
Merz,  George  J., 
Miller,  August  B., 


Wooster  Lodge,  No.  79 

Corinthian  Lodge,  No.  103 

Adelphi  Lodge,  No.  63 

Meridian  Lodge 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Dayspring  Lodge,  No.  30 

Dayspring  Lodge,  No.  30 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Day  Spring  Lodge 

Hiram  Lodge,  No.  1 

Adelphi  Lodge 

Adelphi  Lodge 

Corinthian  Lodge 

St.  Mark's  Lodge,  Xo.  91 

S.,  Hiram  Lodge 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Dayspring  Lodge 

Adelphi  Lodge 

Hiram  Lodge 

Conn.   Rock  Lodge 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Compass  Lodge,  No.  9 

Princeton  Lodge,  No.  3 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Adelphi  Lodge 


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Patton,  D.  Walter, 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Pierpont,  Joseph, 

Dayspring  Lodge 

Potter,  Hubert  F., 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Redfield,  Walter  M., 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Reynolds,  John  F., 

Harmony  Lodge,  No.  21 

Riggs,  Horace, 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Robinson,  Willard  A., 

Adelphi  Lodge 

Rowan,  Joseph, 

Dayspring  Lodge 

Smith,  Herbert  P., 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Squires,  Frank  C, 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Stiles,  Edgar  H., 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Stiles  Ezra  L., 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Stiles,  Frank  L., 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Stiles,  George  W., 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Thomlinson,  John  A., 

Dayspring  Lodge 

Thorpe,  Gardiner  E., 

Corinthian  Lodge 

Thorpe,  Rufus, 

Hiram  Lodge 

Thorpe,  Sheldon  B., 

Trumbull  Lodge,  No.  22 

Tucker,  Dennis  W., 

Adelphi  Lodge 

Turner,  Charles  N., 
Turtle,  L.  Peet, 
Uhl,  John  A., 
Wooding,  Leonard  B., 


Corinthian  Lodge 

Conn.  Rock  Lodge,  No.  92 

Olive  Branch  Lodge 


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NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


A  COMPLETE  ROSTER  OF  THE  VOLUNTEERS 
IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR,    1861-1865. 

Who  were  either  born  in  North  Haven,  or  at  any  time  resided  in 
the  town  previous  to  enlistment. 


1.  Andrews,  Judson  B., 

2.  Barnes,  Charles  M., 

3.  Barnes,  Luzerne  S., 

4.  Barnes,  Stuart. 

5.  Bassett,  Hobart  A., 

6.  Bassett,  Seth  B., 

7.  Blair,  Joseph  O., 

8.  Blakeslee,  Julius, 

9.  Bradley,  Edgar  S., 

10.  Bradley,  Ellsworth  H., 

11.  Bradley,  Henry  E., 

12.  Bradley,  Theodore, 

13.  Brockett,  Charles  A., 

14.  Brockett,  Eli  I., 

15.  Brocket,  George  E., 

16.  Brockett,  Horace  W., 

17.  Brockett,  James  H., 

18.  Brockett,  William, 

19.  Brockett,  William  E., 

20.  Burke,  Edmund, 

21.  Clarke,  Elbert  C, 

22.  Cleary,  Thomas  J., 

23.  Cooper,  Harvey  E., 

24.  Cowles,  Edward  O., 

25.  Cowles,  Henry  F., 

26.  Culver,  Henry, 

27.  Doolittle,  Isaac  L., 

28.  Doolittle,  Jesse  T., 

29.  Eaton,  Frederic  G., 

30.  Frost,  Alva, 

31.  Goodyear,  Edward  L., 


77th  N.  Y.  Inf. 
27th  Conn. 

6th  Conn. 

15th  Conn. 

15th  Conn. 

1st  Conn.  Heavy  Art. 

5th  Conn. 

1st  Conn.  Heavy  Art. 

15th  Conn. 

3d  U.  S.  Regulars 

15th  Conn. 

7th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
27th  Conn. 
27th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
Naval  Service 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
1 8th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 

7th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
10th  Conn. 


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32. 

Goodyear,  Ellsworth  D.  S., 

10th  Conn. 

33- 

Goodyear,  Robert  B., 

27th  Conn. 

34- 

Goodyear,  Walstein, 

1  st  Conn.  Heavy  Art. 

35- 

Goodyear,  F.  Wilbur, 

71I1  Conn. 

36. 

Gilbert,  John  P., 

99th  N.  Y. 

37- 

Gill,  Henry  B., 

7th  Conn, 

38. 

Gill,  George  T., 

15th  Conn. 

39- 

Gill.  William  H., 

27th  Conn. 

40. 

Hart,  Henry  C., 

15th  Conn. 

41- 

Hartley,  Henry  B., 

15th  Conn. 

42. 

Higgins,  James, 

15th  Conn. 

43- 

Hills,  Russell, 

15th  Conn. 

44- 

Hoadley,  Harvey  S., 

10th  Conn. 

45- 

Hotchkiss,  Amos  S., 

1st  Conn. 

46. 

Hovey,  William  B., 

10th  Conn. 

47- 

Hovey,  Walter  P., 

10th  Conn. 

48. 

Howarth,  Alfred  H., 

6th  Conn. 

49- 

Hunie,  Adolph  P., 

15th  Conn. 

5o. 

Jacobs,  Charles  AW, 

1st  Conn.  Heavy  Art. 

5i- 

Jacobs,  John  T., 

27th  Conn. 

52. 

Jacobs,  Egbert, 

15th  Conn. 

53- 

Jacobs,  Marcus  A., 

10th  Conn. 

54- 

Judd,  Truman  O., 

27th  Conn. 

55- 

Lamm,  Adam, 

27th  Conn. 

56. 

Linsley,  Jacob  P., 

15th  Conn. 

57- 

Linsley,  Samuel  M., 

15th  Conn. 

58. 

Mansfield,  William  L., 

14th  N.  Y. 

59- 

Marks,  Nathan  H., 

15th  Conn. 

60. 

McCormick,  John, 

5th  Conn. 

61. 

Morgan,  George, 

15th  Conn. 

62. 

Morse,  Augustus  G., 

15th  Conn. 

63- 

Morse,  William  J., 

15th  Conn. 

64. 

O'Brien,  Thomas, 

27th  Conn. 

65- 

Palmer,  Merwin  E., 

15th  Conn. 

66. 

Palmer,  Nathan  A., 

27th  Conn. 

67. 

Pardee,  Milton  B., 

15th  Conn. 

68. 

Phelps,  William  P., 

15th  Conn. 

69. 

Riggs,  Horace, 

1st  Conn.  Heavv  Art. 

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NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


70.  Robinson,  Riley  A., 

71.  Rogers,  Leverett  M., 

72.  Rogers,  William  A., 
J$.  Smith,  Elbert  J., 

74.  Smith,  George  W., 

75.  Smith,  Henry  E., 

76.  Smith,  James  E., 
yy.  Smith,  Merton  L., 

78.  Smith,  Oliver  T., 

79.  Smith,  Sanford  B., 

80.  Stiles,  Ezra  L., 

81.  Stiles,  Henry  H., 

82.  Thorpe,  Edwin  A., 

83.  Thorpe,  Rums, 

84.  Thorpe,  Sheldon  B., 

85.  Todd,  Beri, 

86.  Todd,  Henry  D., 

87.  Todd,  Kirtland, 

88.  Tucker,  Dennis  W., 

89.  Tuttle,  Henry  F., 

90.  Tuttle,  Merwin  W., 

91.  Voght,  Justus, 

92.  Waters,  Horace, 

93.  Ford,  Roger  M., 


27th  Conn. 
1st  Conn.  Heavy  Art. 
15th  Conn. 
27th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 

7th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
10th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
13th  N.  Y. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
27th  Conn. 
27th  Conn. 
27th  Conn. 
27th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
U.  S.  Navy 
27th  Conn. 
U.  S.  Regulars 

8th  Conn. 


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VETERAN   SOLDIERS  OF  THE  CIVIL  WAR, 

1 861-1865. 

Residing  in  North  Haven,  January  1,  1901. 


Barnes,  Charles  M.,  Musician, 
Beach,  Joel  E.  W., 
Beaumont,  Francis,  Private, 
Blakeslee,  Julius, 
Brockett,  George  E., 
Brown,  William  H., 
Dains,  George  W., 
4th  N.  Y.  Cavalry — 23d  Conn.  Inf. — 3d  Light  Battery 
Doolittle,  Isaac  L.,  Private,  15th  Conn.  Inf. 

Goodyear,  Ellsworth  D.  S.,  General,  10th  Conn. 


27th  Conn.  Inf. 

1st  U.  S.  Cavalry 

12th  Conn.  Inf. 

1st  Conn.  Heavy  Art. 

27th  Conn. 

4th  U.  S.  (colored) 


Goodyear,  Robert  B.,  Sergeant, 
Higgins,  James,  Private, 
Howarth,  Alfred  H.,  Corporal, 
Hyde,  Albert  A.,  Corporal, 
Jacobs,  John  T.,  Private, 
Jacobs,  Collis  M.,  Private, 
Judd,  Truman  O.,  Private, 
Lehane,  Jeremiah, 
Linsley  Solomon  F.,  Lieut., 
Marks,  Nathan  H.,  Musician, 
Palmer,  Merwin  E.,  Private, 
Riggs,  Horace,  Private, 
Smith,  James  E.,  Private, 
Spencer,  A.  H., 
Stiles,  Ezra  L.,  Private, 
Storrs,  Hector  W., 
Thorpe,  Rufus,  Private, 
Thorpe,  Sheldon  B.,  Sergeant, 
Todd,  Henry  D.,  Private, 
Tucker,  Dennis  W.,  Private, 
Uhle,  John  A., 
Vibbert,  Albert  N., 
Vibbert,  George  S., 
Wilcox,  Charles  C, 
Yale,  Edward  C, 


27th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
6th  Conn. 
6th  Conn. 
27th  Conn. 
8th  Conn. 
27th  Conn. 
3d  N.  Y.  Cavalry 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
1st  Conn.  Heavy  Art. 
7th  Conn.  Inf. 
24th  Conn. 
13th  N.  Y.  Cavalry 
22d  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
15th  Conn. 
27th  Conn. 
27th  Conn. 
6th  Conn. 
7th  Vermont 
15th  Conn. 
1st  Mich.  Cav. 


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THE   PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOARD   OF  EDUCATION. 


1898.     Elected  for  3  years. 
1898. 


George  J.  Merz, 
Frank  W.  Foote, 

Isaac  E.  Mansfield,  1898. 

Dr.  R.  B.  Goodyear,  1899. 

John  A.  Thomlinson,  1899. 

Walter  H.  Bishop,  1899. 

Julian  W.  Turtle,  1900. 

George  H.  Cooper,  1900, 

O.  Sherwood  Todd,  1900. 

John  A.  Thomlinson,  Chairman  of  Board. 

Dr.  R.  B.  Goodyear,  Secretary  and  Acting  Visitor 


Dr.   Robert  B.  Goodyear. 

Veteran  of  the  Civil  War. 

Member  New  Haven  County  Medical  Societv. 

Superintendent  of  Public  Schools. 


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District  No.  i. 
Committee — W.  W.  Stevens,  Collector  and  Treasurer. 
Clerk — Lewis  I.  Fowler. 

Teacher — January  session — Miss    Clara    L.    Munson.    $9,00    per 
week. 

Enumeration  in  1900,  2J. 

District  No.  2. 

Committee — R.  N.  Barnes,  Collector  and  Treasurer. 

Clerk — Charles  X.  Turner 

Teacher — January  session — Charlotte  Barnes,  $9.00  per  week. 

Enumeration  in  1900,  21. 

District  No.  3. 

Committee — Edwin  H.  Pardee,  Collector  and  Treasurer. 
Clerk — George  L.  Barnes. 

Teachers — January  session — Miss  Edith  Cook,  room  2,  $10.00; 

Miss  Ruth  Smith,  room  1,  $9.00. 
Enumeration  in  1900,  95. 

District  No.  4. 
Committee — George  J.  Merz. 
Clerk— L.  Peet  Tuttle. 
Teachers — January     session — Miss     Adella     Baldwin,     room     1, 

$11.00;  Miss  Anna  Bannell,  room  2,  $9.00;  Miss  Anna  L. 

Goodyear,  room  3,  $11.00. 

Enumeration  in   1900,  no. 

District  No.  5. 
No  School.     Enumeration  in  1900,  8. 

District  No.  6. 

Committee — Lewis  G.  Tuttle,  Collector  and  Treasurer. 

Clerk — Jesse  B.  Jacobs. 

Teacher — January  session — Mrs.  Florence  Tuttle  Baldwin,  $9.00. 

Enumeration  in  1900,  24. 


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NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


District  No.  7. 

Committee — Andrew  Halloran. 

Clerk — Robert  E.  Dickerman. 

Teacher — January    session — Miss    Florence    Landon,    $9.00    per 
week. 

Enumeration  in  1900,  34. 

District  No.  8. 
Committee — Joel  E.  W.  Beach.  ■ 

Clerk — Oliver  Abel,  Treasurer  and  Collector. 
Teacher — January  session — Barbara  Kuebler,  $10.00  per  week. 
Enumeration  in  1900,  71. 


The  Rev.  James  B.  Reynolds. 

Graduate  of  Yale  Divinity  School,  1888. 

Head  Worker  University  Settlement,  N.  Y.  City. 

Chairman  Citizens'  Union,  New  York,  1897. 

Member  New  York  Bar. 

Member  New  York  Tenement  House  Commission. 


Miss  Annie  M.   Reynolds. 

Graduate  Wellesley  College. 
Ex-Secretary    Brooklyn   Young   Women's 

Christian  Association. 
Ex-Secretary  Iowa  Y.  W.  C.  A. 
The  World's  Secretary  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A. 


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POST  OFFICES. 

Post  Office  at  North  Haven  Centre. 

Location,  Clinton's  Block. 
Third  Class — Salary,  $1,500.00. 
William  P.  Leete,  Postmaster. 
Elizur  C.  Harrison,  Assistant. 
John  H.  Blakeslee,  Carrier,  Rural  Delivery. 

Mails  close. 


Mails  arrive. 
6.56  a.  m.     South  and  West. 

8.15  a.  m.     South  and  West.  8.00  a.  m. 

9.16  a.  m.  North  and  East.  9.00  a.  m. 
1 1. 17  a.  m.  South  and  West.  1.00  p.  m. 
1. 14  p.  m.  North  and  East.  3.10  p.  m. 
3.26  p.  rri.  South  and  West.  8.00  p.  m. 
6.30  p.  m.     New  Haven,  Conn. 

Office  Hours  Holidays — 7.30  to  9.30  a.  m. ;  1.00  to  2.00,  6.30 
to  7.30  p.  in. 


North  and  East. 
South  and  West. 
South  and  West. 
North  and  East. 
South  and  West. 


William   P.   Leete. 

Postmaster. 


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John  H.  Blakeslee. 

Mail  Carrier,  Rural  Delivery. 


Ei.izuk  C.   Harrison. 

Assistant  Postmaster. 


David  L.  Clinton. 

Postmaster. 


George  H.  Cooper. 

Postmaster. 


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Post  Office  at  Clintonville. 

Established  1871. 

Location,  Medicine  Co.  Building. 
Third  Class — Salary,  $1,400.00. 
Gross  receipts  year  1900,  $3,200.00. 

David  L.  Clinton,  Postmaster. 

Mails  arrive.  Mails  close. 

8.05  a.  in.  9.08  a.  m. 

1. 1 5  p.m.  6.24  p.  111. 

Post  Office  at  Montowese. 

Established  1871. 

Location,  Cooper's  Block. 

Fourth  Class. 

George  H.  Cooper,  Postmaster. 

George  W.  Dains,  Assistant. 

Mails  arrive.  Mails  close. 

9.42  a.  in.  7.54  a.  m. 

5.30  p.m.  7.54  a.m. 


126       NORTH  HAVEN  IN  THE  NINETEENTH  CENTURY. 


THE  TWENTIETH    CENTURY   CONCERT. 

The  concert  planned  by  the  Committee  for  the  evening  of 
December  31,  1900,  was  found  to  be  impracticable.  A  postpone- 
ment was  therefore  made  to  February  15,  1901,  and  the  former 
evening  was  given  up  to  a  public  meeting  in  Memorial  Hall, 
watch-night  services  in  the  Congregational  Church  Chapel,  and 
the  arranged-for  salute  and  bell  ringing  at  12  o'clock  midnight. 

The  latter  event  began  promptly  on  time  under  the  direction 
of  S.  F.  Linsley,  Chairman  of  the  Amusement  Committee,  with 
Arthur  B.  Thorpe,  Chief  Gunner.  Forty-two  rounds  were  dis- 
charged. The  night  was  mild  and  moonlight.  Sounds  of  can- 
non were  heard  in  various  directions,  and  it  was  an  ideal  time  in 
which  to  welcome  the  advent  of  the  new  century.  Dwellings  were 
illuminated,  and  most  of  the  townspeople  were  abroad  enjoying 
the  novel  scene. 

Rehearsals  for  the  contemplated  concert  began  at  once  under 
the  direction  of  F.  H.  Stiles  and  A.  B.  Clinton.  These  were 
prosecuted  with  vigor,  and  on  the  evening  of  February  15, 
Memorial  Hall  was  rilled  with  a  large  audience.  The  range  of 
music  was  wide,  and  gave  great  satisfaction. 

PROGRAM. 

OLD    FOLKS. 

t.  March, Orchestra 

2..  Old  Lang  Syne. 

3.  Invitation. 

4.  Sons  of  Zion. 

5.  Shelbourne. 

6.  Suwanee  River,       .         .         Solo  by  Miss  Genevieve  Barnes 

7.  Strike  the  Cymbals. 

S.  All  Bound  Round H.  E.  Woodford 

9.  A  Country  Dance. 


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SECULAR. 

10.  Orchestra  (Crushed  Violets) 

11.  Dream,  ...  .         . 

12.  On  High  the  Stars. 

13.  Selected,  ...... 

14.  Ringgold,     E.  H.  &  L.  I.  Stiles,  F.  Squires 

15.  Slumber  Boat,        ..... 

17.  The  Lost  Chord. 

MINSTRELS. 

18.  Orchestra  (Coontown  Capers). 

19.  Once  More,  ...... 

20.  Pliney,  ...... 

21.  Cindy,  .  .... 

22.  Mandy  Lee,  ..... 

23.  My  Jersey  Lilly,     ... 

24.  Dixie  Kidd,    F.  Squires,  E.  H.  Stiles,  L.  I. 

25.  I've  Waited,  Honey,       .... 

26.  Every  Nation  has  a  Flag  but  a  Coon,    .' 


Miss  May  Elcock 

James  Pierce.  Jr. 

&  H.  W.  Clinton 

W.  Sperry 


J.  Pierce,  Jr. 

E.  H.  Stiles 

Frank  Squires 

W.  Sperry 

H.  E.  Woodford 

Stiles,  W.  Sperry 

J.  Pierce,  Jr. 

E.  H.  Stiles 


R.  O.  Eaton,  Interlocutor. 


Bones. 

H.  E.  Woodford, 

E.  H.  Stiles, 
F.  Squires, 
L.  Munson, 
W.  Stevens. 

F.  H.  Stiles,  Director. 


Tambos. 

W.  Sperry, 
J.  Pearce, 
L.  I.  Stiles, 
J.  H.  Tomlinson, 
H.  W.  Smith. 

A.  B.  Clinton,  Accompanist. 


H.  Wilson  Clinton,  Leader  of  Orchestra. 


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THE   CALIFORNIA   GOLD    HUNTERS. 

Of  the  twelve  men  who  visited  California  in  search  of  gold 
1 849- 1 852,  but  a  single  survivor  exists — John  E.  Brockett.  His 
companions  were  Henry  B.  Fowler,  Franklin  Shepherd,  Charles 
Heaton,  Frederic  Shepherd,  George  Mix,  Daniel  Barnes,  Chaun- 
cey  Barnes,  William  Mansfield,  Anson  Button,  Burritt  Brockett, 
Alexander  Robison,  and  Samuel  Hale. 

Fowler,  the  two  Shepherds,  Heaton  and  Mix,  started  about 
April  1,  1849,  v'a  the  "Overland  Route."  They  left  Independ- 
ence, Mo.,  April  15,  in  a  wagon  drawn  by  several  pairs  of  un- 
broken Texan  steers,  guided  with  ropes  tied  to  their  horns. 
These  animals  were  not  unyoked  till  after  three  weeks  of  hard 
service.  The  journey  lasted  four  months,  the  little  company 
reaching  Sacramento  the  middle  of  August.  Heaton  died  soon 
after  arrival.     The  others  separated  for  the  mines. 


Henry  B.   Fowler. 


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hi  the  same  year — [849 — Button,  John  E.  and  Burritt 
Brockett,  sailed  in  the  schooner  Emma  Packer  from  Fair  Haven, 
Conn.,  by  the  way  of  Cape  Horn  for  the  gold  coast.  The  voy- 
age was  long'  and  tedious,  but  they  reached  their  port  safely. 
Later,  the  two  Barnes',  Robison,  Mansfield,  and  George  W. 
Brockett,  made  the  journey  by  water  around  the  Cape.  On  their 
arrival  the  country  was  found  flooded  with  adventurers  who  had 
poured  in  from  every  quarter  of  the  globe.  Mining  was  at  a 
discount,  and  they  with  thousands  of  others  turned  their  atten- 
tion to  trade.     Most  were  successful. 

The  return  of  these  men  was  mainly  by  way  of  the  Isthmus 
of  Panama.  Fowler  became  sick  within  a  year  after  his  arrival 
in  Sacramento  and  started  for  home.  He  was  carried  on  a  litter 
by  the  natives  across  the  isthmus  and  placed  on  board  a  steamer. 
Recovering,  he  made  a  second  trip  there  in  1852.  Chauncey 
Barnes  died  on  the  return  voyage  and  was  buried  at  sea  on  the 
Pacific  side. 


THE   CLAY   INDUSTRY. 

In  one  form  and  another,  clay  has  been  a  factor  in  the  com- 
mercial world  since  the  dawn  of  history.  It  will  probably  con- 
tinue to  be  so  while  man  exists.  During  the  past  century  its 
manufactured  products  reached  a  higher  stage  than  in  all  the 
preceding  years  combined,  and  because  it  is  certain  that  the  pres- 
ent century  will  see  its  development  in  forms  and  ways  unknown 
at  present,  allusion  is  made  to  it  at  this  time. 

Its  manufacture  in  this  town  dates  from  1725,  and  the  honors 
of  proprietorship  are  equally  divided  between  one  Seeley  and 
Nathaniel  Thorpe,  Jr.  They  made  building  brick,  and  building 
brick  have  continued  to  be  made  in  increasing  quantity  every 
decade  since  that  year.  The  output  of  The  I.  L.  Stiles  &  Son 
Brick  Co.,  for  the  year  1900,  was  not  far  from  18,000,000.  This 
product  for  the  most  part  found  a  ready  market  in  Connecticut, 
though  heavy  orders  were  shipped  to  Rhode  Island  and  Eastern 
Massachusetts. 

These  brick  were  made  by  what  is  known  in  Xew  England 
as  "the  soft  mud  process,*'  :  and  burned  with  wood  in  the  old 


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NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


style  open  kilns.  Attempts  have  been  made  to  use  coal  and  oil 
in  firing,  but  without  success.  From  five  to  six  thousand  cords 
of  wood  are  used  annually  by  the  above  firm  at  prices  ranging 
from  three  to  four  dollars  per  cord.  Two  hundred  hands  and 
more  are  employed  in  the  busy  season,  and  from  fifty  to  seventy- 
five  the  entire  year.  Most  of  the  brick  used  in  the  construction 
of  the  large  buildings  of  Yale  University  are  the  products  of  this 
yard. 

A  branch  at  Taunton,  Mass.,  has  recently  been  established — 
a  corporation — with  a  capacity  of  from  ten  to  twelve  millions 
annually.  These  find  a  market  in  Boston,  Providence,  and 
vicinity. 


Frank  L    Stiles. 

President  of  The  I.  L.  Stiles  &  Son  Brick  Co. 
President  of  The  Stiles  &  Hart  Brick  Co. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


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CLOVER    DAIRY    FARM. 

Clover  Dairy  Farm  is  the  name  which  Air.  D.  W.  Patten  has 
bestowed  upon  225  acres  of  as  fair  soil  as  lies  in  New  Haven 
County.  This  tract  was  once  a  part  of  the  Rev.  James  Pier- 
pont's  possessions.  It  fell  to  his  son,  Lieut.  Joseph,  then  to  his 
son  Giles — then  to  Giles,  Jr.,  father  of  Munson  Edward  Pierpont, 
the  distinguished  jurist  and  diplomat.  Hence  the  grounds  are 
historic.  Not  only  this,  but  they  are  charming  in  scenery. 
What  with  hill,  river,  meadow,  and  the  commodious  dairy  and 
farm  buildings  dotting  the  landscape,  it  presents  the  picture  of 
an  ideal  country  home. 

Mr.  Patten  is  a  graduate  of  Yale  S.  S.,  '87 — Ex-Member 
General  Assembly  1899 — Member  State  Board  of  Agriculture — 
State  Pomological  Society — State  Dairymen's  Association,  and 
present  first  selectman  and  town  agent. 


Birthplace  Hon.  Edwards  Pierpont. 


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THE   VILLAGE    IMPROVEMENT  ASSOCIATION. 

The  Village  Improvement  Association  was  organized  in 
April,  1892.  It  grew  out  of  the  needs  of  the  people  in  the  more 
immediate  center  of  the  town,  for  street  lamps  and  sidewalks. 
The  Hon.  Isaac  L.  Stiles  was  elected  its  first  president.  Funds 
were  freely  contributed  by  the  citizens,  and  the  principal  streets 
were  lighted  by  naphtha  lamps  in  July  of  the  same  ye,ar. 

Since  then  the  Association  has  been  annually  increasing  in 
value  to  the  community.  By  the  death  of  Mr.  Stiles  in  1895  a 
trust  fund  of  $500.00  was  established  for  its  benefit.  It  operates 
at  present  about  fifty  public  lamps  within  a  radius  of  half  a  mile 
from  the  post  office,  and  has  recently  laid,  with  the  assistance 
of  property  owners,  not  far  from  three  thousand  yards  of  substan- 
tial concrete  sidewalk.     Its  present  officers  are : 

The  Rev.  Louis  A.  Parsons,  President. 

Marcus  D.  Marks,  Secretary. 

Joseph  Pierpont,  Treasurer. 


Residence  of  William   E.   Dickerman. 


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137 


GENERAL   E.   D.  S.  GOODYEAR.' 

Member  General  Assembly,  1868. 

Registrar  of  Voters  since   1886. 

Ellsworth  D.  S.  Goodyear  is  the  eldest  of  seven  sons  of  Bela 
and  Delia  A.  (Gill)  Goodyear.  He  was  born  in  North  Haven, 
April  28,  1827. 


General  E.  D.  S.  Goodyear. 

In  1846  he  became  associated  with  Charles,  Henry,  and  Nel- 
son Goodyear  in  the  manufacture  of  India  rubber  articles,  where 
he  participated  in  many  of  the  experiments  resulting  in  discov- 
eries which  have  since  made  the  name  of  Goodyear  famous  in 
connection  with  the  development  of  the  rubber  industries.  Mr. 
Goodyear  thus  describes  the  discovery  of  the  process  of  making 
hard  rubber: 

"Manufacturers  of  rubber  had  long  been  trying  to  devise 
some  means  by  which  rubber  could  be  hardened  sufficiently  to 

1  It  was  early  determined  by  the  committee  that  this  volume  should  be  neither  a  biographical 
or  advertising  medium.  If  departure  is  charged  in  this  instance,  it  is  because  the  matter  of 
hard  rubber  is  of  worldwide  importance,  and  the  military  record  that  of  a  brave  soldier. 


130  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

be  made  useful  as  a  substitute  for  whalebone.  While  studying 
in  Liebig's  chemistry  the  subject  of  the  preparation  of  sulphur,  I 
found  that  sulphur  melted  a  second  time  at  3100  of  heat,  and 
cooled  in  shellac  form.  It  occurred  to  me  that  here  might  be 
the  solution  of  the  hard  rubber  problem,  and  upon  making  the 
suggestion  to  Henry  B.  Goodyear,  he  arranged  with  the  engineer 
to  have  the  steam  pressure  high  enough  during  the  night  to 
reach  3100.  I  prepared  six  one-pound  packages  of  gum,  adding 
to  the  first  2  ounces  of  sulphur,  to  the  second  4  ounces,  and  to 
the  others  in  succession  6,  8,  and  10  ounces.  These  mixtures 
were  rolled  into  sheets  about  an  eighth  of  an  inch  thick,  placed 
between  sheets  of  tin,  wrapped  in  rubber  cloth,  the  whole  put  into 
a  small  steam  boiler  and  subjected  to  3100  of  heat,  at  which  point 
it  was  kept  for  eight  hours.  When  the  package  was  eagerly 
opened,  the  sheets  were  found  to  be  of  varying  degrees  of  hard- 
ness ;  those  of  the  lesser  amounts  of  sulphur  were  flexible,  while 
the  sheet  composed  of  1  pound  of  gum  and  8  ounces  of  sulphur 
was  the  best  of  the  lot.  Because  of  the  brittleness  of  the  material 
it  failed  to  take  the  place  of  whalebone,  but  it  formed  the  basis 
of  the  rubber  button  business  as  well  as  of  the  thousand  and  one 
other  uses  to  which  hard  rubber  is  now  applied  the  world  over." 
On  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  in  1861  Mr.  Goodyear  entered 
the  service  as  Captain  of  the  C  Company,  10th  Regiment  of  Con- 
necticut Volunteers, and  served  continuously, except  for  one  inter- 
val of  six  weeks,  to  the  end  of  the  war.  His  regiment  served  in 
the  Departments  of  North  Carolina,  1862,  and  South  Carolina  in 
1863,  and  was  in  the  siege  of  Morris  Island  and  Fort  Sumter. 
The  night  after  the  evacuation  of  the  Island  by  the  Confederates 
a  night  attack  was  planned  on  Fort  Sumter.  The  duty  was 
assigned  to  the  24th  Massachusetts  and  the  10th  Connecticut 
Regiments.  Captain  Goodyear  was  selected  to  lead  the  forlorn 
hope  of  opening  the  attack  on  the  city  face  of  the  fort,  and,  if 
successful,  to  remain  in  the  fort  with  one  hundred  men  until 
relieved.  This  expedition,  in  boats  and  barges,  with  1,200  pounds 
of  powder  with  which  to  blow  down  the  gate  of  the  fort,  was 
within  300  yards  of  its  destination  when  the  Navy  commenced 
an  attack  on  the  fort.  As  it  had  been  previously  arranged  be- 
tween the  commanding  Admiral  and  General  that  whichever 
party  arrived  first  should  not  be  interfered  with  by  the  other,  the 
Army  had  to  abandon  the  project. 


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In  [864  Captain  Goodyear  was  promoted  to  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  of  the  same  regiment.  At  the  breaking  up  of  the  war,  the 
Colonel  being  absent  on  leave,  he  was  in  command  of  the  regi- 
ment at  Hatcher's  Run,  when  they  were  ordered  to  assault  Fort 
Greo"«",  the  last  fort  of  the  inner  line  of  defenses  south  of  Peters- 
burg.  With  180  men  and  12  officers  he  made  a  lodgment  on  the 
south  angle  of  the  fort  and  held  on  for  forty-five  minutes  until 
other  troops  in  sufficient  numbers  were  brought  up  to  carry  the 
works.  This  was  one  of  the  most  strongly  contested  points  in 
the  whole  line.  There  were  23  stands  of  colors  on  the  fort  before 
the  enemy  surrendered.  Out  of  the  180  men  and  12  officers 
under  Lieut. -Col.  Goodyear's  command,  118  men  and  8  officers 
were  either  killed  or  wounded.  He  himself  was  here  shot 
through  the  right  shoulder,  sustaining  severe  and  permanent 
injuries.2 

He  was  brevetted  Colonel  for  "Meritorious  services  during 
the  war,"  and  Brevet  Brigadier-General  for  "Especial  gallantry  in 
the  assault  on  Fort  Gregg,  April  2,  1865." 


Frederic  C.  Bradley. 

Lineal  descendant  of  Major  William  Bradley, 
New  Haven  Colony. 


George  B.  Todd. 

Lineal  descendant  of  Christopher  Todd, 
New  Haven  Colony. 


2  See  History  ioth  Conn.  Vols. 


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Edward  L.  Linsley,  Attorney. 

Born  North  Haven  March  21,  1858. 

Died  October  18,  1900. 

Was  graduated  Yale  Law  School  1878. 

Assistant  Clerk  New   Haven  City  Court 
1883-1893. 

Ex-State  President  Young  Men's  Repub- 
lican Club. 

Ex-Town  Clerk. 

Trial  Justice  Local  Court. 

Prosecuting  Attorney  New  Haven  County. 

Chairman    Twentieth   Century  Committee 
on  Literary  Exercises. 


O.  H.  D.  Fowler,  Attorney. 

Born  North  Haven  January  17,  1857. 
Was  graduated  Yale  S.  S.  1878 
Was  graduated  Yale  Law  School  18S1. 
Member  of  New  Haven  County  I'ar. 
Ex-Judge  Probate  Court,  District  of  Wal- 

lingford. 
Practicing  Attorney,  Wallingford,  Conn. 


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C.  A.  Brockett. 

President  C.  A.  brocket!  Cement  Co.,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


Gardiner  E.  Thorpe. 

The  Bradstrect  Co.,  Boston. 


Frank  E.  Hall 

Agent  Pass.  Drp't  N.  Y.,  N.  H.  &  H.  R.  R. 
Grand  Central  Station,  N.  Y.  City. 


Edgar  A.   Hemingway, 

Ex-Selectman. 


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143 


PETER'S   ROCK. 

This  eminence  near  the  southeastern  border  of  the  town,  has 
recently  come  into  public  notice  as  affording-  one  of  the  most 
pleasing  landscape  views  seen  from  its  summit.  It  rises  abruptly 
from  a  somewhat  rocky  ridge  and  owes  its  formation  to  volcanic 
agency.  Doubtless  its  elevation  was  once  much  greater  than  at 
present,  indeed,  if  as  asserted.  East  and  West  Rocks  in  past  ages 
had  an  altitude  of  one  thousand  feet  or  more,  then  Peter's  Rock 
may  lay  claim  to  an  equal  height.  Its  present  elevation  above 
tide  water  is  about  400  feet. 

The  appearance  of  this  bluff  bears  evidence  of  untold  cen- 
turies of  denudation.  Its  boldest  face  is  upon  the  western  side 
where  singular  columnar  formations  are  seen,  not  common  to 
other  trap  rock  upheavals  in  the  county.  They  resemble  in  form 
somewhat  the  basaltic  pillars  of  the  Giant's  Causeway  in  the  old 
world. 


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In  the  early  days  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  it  was  a  noted 
Indian  outlook.  Later  it  became  known  as  "Great  Rock" — 
"Rabbit  Hill"'  or  "Rabbit  Rock."  So  far  as  ascertained,  one 
Joseph  Granniss  was  an  early  owner.  He  gave  the  settlers  of 
"Muddy  River"  privilege  to  quarry  stone  for  their  buildings,  and 
cut  firewood  for  their  use  without  expense.  A  rude  highway 
was  opened  on  the  eastern  side,  the  southern  extremity  of  which 
reached  the  shore  in  East  Haven,  while  the  other  end,  eupho- 
niously known  as  "Pig  Lane,"  extended  up  into  North  Haven. 


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Whitney  Elliott. 

Ex-Selectman  and  Town  Agent. 
State  Senati  r  Sixth  District,  1867. 
Chairman  Centennial  Committee,  1887. 


Henry  M.   Blakeslee. 
Born  1813. 


Among  the  farmers  who  settled  along  this  thoroughfare,  was 
Peter  Brockett,  who  claimed  to  own  the  rock,  and  from  whom 
it  gained  its  present  name.  Brockett  was  a  Revolutionary  sol- 
dier, and  a  severe  wound  had  so  deformed  his  spine  as  to  render 
him  a  cripple.  He  was  something  of  a  hermit  besides,  and  lived 
in  a  rude  hut,  the  ruins  of  which  are  still  to  be  found  at  the 
northern  base  of  the  more  rocky  bluff.  The  late  Jesse  O.  Eaton 
recalled  having  seen  him  on  manv  occasions. 


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I46  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

On  or  about  the  year  1873,  the  town  ordered  a  general  assess- 
ment. Messrs.  Whitney  Elliott,  Willis  B.  Hemingway  and 
Henry  M.  Blakeslee  were  appointed  to  do  the  work.  They 
reported  "Peter's  Rock"  as  being  in  the  possession  of  Jude 
Cooper's  heirs,  and  placed  a  valuation  upon  it.  In  due  time  a 
tax  was  laid,  but  no  one  could  be  found  to  pay  it.  Accordingly  the 
tax  collector,  L.  Peet  Tuttle,  ordered  the  property  sold  at  auction, 
and  it  was  bid  off  by  George  W.  Jones,  August  31,  1874. 

Soon  after,  the  citizens  of  Muddy  River  not  relishing  the  dis- 
posal of  the  real  estate  in  that  manner,  and  particularly  of  the 
Granniss  franchise  which  they  claimed,  came  into  the  annual 
town  meeting  in  October,  1874,  and  voted  to  redeem  the  property 
for  the  benefit  of  the  town.  This  was  accomplished  in  1875,  Mr. 
Jones  receiving  $31.78  as  reimbursement. 

Such  in  brief  is  the  town's  alleged  claim  to  this  now  valuable 
possession.  A  portion  of  the  summit  has  been  leased  for  several 
years  to  a  number  of  New  Haven  gentlemen  who  have  erected 
an  elegant  club  house  on  its  summit  styled  "The  Hermitage." 
The  view  from  this  point  is  of  surpassing  beauty.  Neither  East 
nor  West  Rocks  furnish  anything  like  it. 


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147 


Theophilus  Eaton. 

Ex-Selectman. 

Ex-Member  Genera]  Assembly,  two  terms. 


148  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


OLD   HOME  WEEK. 

The  following  general  observance  of  "Old  Home  Week"  is 

planned : 

Sunday,  June  2d — Children's  Day. 

Tuesday  Evening,  June  4th. 

Dramatic  Entertainment  in  Memorial  Hall  by  P.  of  H.,  No. 
35.  At  this  time  the  Drama  "Our  Folks"  will  be  produced  under 
the  direction  of  Miss  M.  Grace  Smith,  by  the  following  cast: 

Capt.  Sleeper,  Mr.  L.  Peet  Tuttle. 

Capt.  Thompson,  Mr.  Edwin  S.  Mansfield. 

Harry  Thompson,  Mr.  Herbert  W.  Smith. 

Teddy  Sleeper,  Master  Harold  Harrison. 

Hiram  Small,  Mr.  Frank  B.  North. 

Phil,  Mr.  Ellsworth  J.  Smith. 

Mrs.  Capt.  Thompson,  Miss  Ina  G.  Tuttle. 

Mrs.  Capt.  Sleeper,  Mrs.  E.  A.  Spencer. 

Becky  Sleeper,  Miss  Cora  A.  Eaton. 

Hulda  Prime,  Miss  Susan  C.  Jacobs. 

Silly  York,  Miss  Rosa  C.  Stiles. 
Music  by  the  North  Flaven  Orchestra. 

Wednesday,  June  5th — Outing  Day. 

This  day  is  designed  to  afford  an  opportunity  for  visiting,, 
sight  seeing,  and  social  enjoyment. 

Thursday,  June  6th — General  Holiday. 

Order  of  the  Day. 

Sunrise — Salute  on  Pierpont  Park. 

8  a.  m. — Assembling  of  Parade  on  Broadway. 

9  a.  m. — Parade. 

10.30  a.  m. — Exercises  in  Congregational  Church. 


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149 


1.  Music, 

2.  Invocation, 

3.  Music, 

4.  Welcome, 

5.  Music. 


Program. 

Band. 

The  Rev.  William  G.  Lathrop. 

Public  School  Children. 

Robert  O.  Eaton,  Chairman. 

Band. 


Sheldon  B.  Thorpe. 
Public  School  Children. 


6.  Historical  Address, 

7.  Music, 

8.  Miscellaneous. 

9.  Hymn,  America,  Audience. 
10.  Issue  of  Memorial  Volume,  Price  $1.00. 

12  m. — Collation  in  Memorial  Hall. 

2  p.  m. — Public  meeting  in  Congregational  Church,  at  which 
the  Rev.  William  Lusk  will  preside.  Eminent  speakers  from 
abroad  will  make  addresses. 


Edmund  C.  Warner. 

Ex-Seleclman. 

Fruit  Grower  and  Pomologist. 


5° 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


ADDRESS  OF  WELCOME   BY  THE  CHAIRMAN 
OF  THE   GENERAL  COMMITTEE. 

Robert  O.  Eaton. 

North  Haven  at  this  "Twentieth    Century    and  Old    Home 

Week  Celebration"  is  proud  of  and  congratulates  itself  on  its 

past  History.     Many  of    its    sons    aided    England  against    the 


Hon.  Hobart  B.  Bigelow. 

Born  North  Haven  May  16,  1834. 

Member  General  Assembly  for  New  Haven  1875. 

Mayor  of  New  Haven  1879-1880. 

Governor  of  Connecticut  1881. 

Died 

French,  and  later  the  colonies  in  their  struggle  for  independence. 
From  the  17th  day  of  June,  1775,  to  the  present  time,  the  people 
of  this  town  have  been  patriotic,  enterprising  and  progressive, 
ever  ready  to  do  their  duty  to  their  God,  their  Country,  their 
family  and  their  fellow-man. 


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151 


During  the  dark  clays  of  1 861- 1865,  when  the  safety  and 
honor  of  the  Nation  was  threatened,  nearly  one  hundred  of  our 
sons  laid  aside  business  pursuits,  abandoned  financial  prospects, 
severed  social  relations,  and  assumed  the  uniform  and  duties  of 
a  soldier's  life, — to  protect  and  preserve  the  government  our 
fathers  had  provided  for  us.  Some  of  those  boys  who  wore  the 
blue  are  here  to-day  at  this  celebration,  no  longer  boys  as  in 
"61,"  for  their  heads  are  fast  becoming  sprinkled  with  gray  hairs, 
yet  honored  in  their  declining  years  for  the  sacrifice  they  made 


Birthplace  of  Governor  H.   B.   Bigelow. 


for  us  and  those  who  are  to  come  after  us.  Many  of  them  have 
gone  on  that  journey  whence  none  can  return,  but  though  their 
names  may  become  dimmed,  their  deeds  and  their  achievements 
grow  brighter  and  richer  with  each  advancing  year.  In  their 
honor,  the  citizens  of  North  Haven  have  erected  the  beautiful 
hall  that  will  stand  for  the  years  to  come, — an  appropriate 
memorial. 

North  Haven  has  furnished  to  the  country  men  of  promi- 
nence in  business  enterprises,  advanced  leaders  in  scientific  in- 
vestigation, and  its  quota  to  the  literary  world.     To  the  church 


152  NORTH    HAVEN    IN     THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

it  has  given  some  of  its  profound  thinkers,  pulpit  orators  and 
religious  workers.  From  those  born  within  its  borders,  have 
been  drawn  men  who  have  served  the  State  in  offices  of  trust  and 
responsibility,  in  various  positions  from  the  bottom  of  the  ladder 
to  the  office  of  chief  executive  of  this  Commonwealth.  It  has 
been  represented  in  the  legislative  halls  of  this  State  one  hun- 
dred and  fourteen  years,  and  by  its  descendants,  in  many  other 
states  of  the  Union,  more  than  a  century.  It  has  furnished  a 
president  of  Yale  College,  an  ambassador  to  the  Court  of  St. 
James,  a  financier  of  high  order,  and  a  banker,  the  founder  of 
our  public  library.  But  this  list  by  no  means  covers  the  citizens 
of  the  town  who  have  gained  eminence  in  other  directions,  and 
who  are  as  proud  of  their  nativity  as  we  are  of  their  record. 

While  we  rejoice  in  our  history  as  a  town,  and  the  success 
of  her  sons  and  daughters,  we  feel  that  we  are  living,  not  in  the 
past,  but  in  the  present,  with  our  faces  turned  toward  the  future, 
and  never  were  times  and  opportunities  more  encouraging  nor 
our  outlook  more  promising.  We  look  forward  to  the  future 
with  the  brightest  anticipation.  Her  citizens  to-day  are  keep- 
ing step  with  the  progress  of  the  times,  loyally  supporting 
churches  and  schools,  preserving  the  old  ancestral  land-marks, 
beautifying  their  homes  and  enriching  their  farms,  building 
macadam  roads,  laying  sidewalks,  maintaining  a  free  public 
library  and  street  lamps,  also  Free  Rural  Mail  delivery. 

Electric  roads  run  into  the  town  as  well  as  steam  roads 
through  several  sections  of  it.  Her  inhabitants  are  energetic  and 
happy,  ever  remembering  the  fact  that  they  are  a  part  of  this 
grand  old  Commonwealth,  which  was  one  of  the  thirteen  original 
States  of  the  Union. 

We  rejoice  that  we  are  American  citizens,  a  part  of  the  grand- 
est and  most  progressive  republic  on  the  face  of  this  earth,  and 
with  such  sentiments  and  under  the  favorable  circumstances  that 
have  been  enumerated,  I  welcome  you  all  here  to-day  on  behalf 
of  the  citizens  of  the  Town  of  North  Haven,  to  our  Twentieth 
Century  and  Old  Home  Week  Celebration.  Wre  extend  to  you 
a  sincere  and  cordial  reception.  May  your  visit  among  us  be 
pleasant  and  enjoyable,  believing  that  when  the  day's  exercises 
shall  have  closed  and  we  shall  once  more  separate  to  our  several 
homes,  we  shall  each  appreciate  more  that  ever  the  glorious 
privileges  we  now  enjoy  and  the  successes  attained. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


15. 


Ancient  Mill  on  the  Muddy  River  Near  the  Old  Bigelow  Homestead 


Michael  Burke 

Veteran  Baggage  Master  North  Haven  R.  R. 
Station.     (Retired  ) 


(Ry  permission  from  Xorth  Haven  Annals.) 

The  Old  Meeting  House  of  1742. 


HISTORICAL  ADDRESS 


BY 


SHELDON  B.  THORPE. 


DELIVERED    IN    THE 


CONGREGATIONAL   CHURCH, 

NORTH  HAVEN,  CONN.,  JUNE,   1901, 

As  part  of  the  Public  Services  held  in  Commemoration  of  the 
opening  of  the  Twentieth  Century. 


.Sheldon  B.  Thorpe. 

Veteran  of  the  Civil  War. 
Author  North  Haven  Annals. 
Author  History  15th  Reg't  Conn.  Vols. 
Ex-Member  General  Assembly. 
Member  Post  17,  G.  A.  R. 


When  Jonathan  Ralph — "Dr.  Ralph"  as  he  was  more  com- 
monly called,  though  without  warrant  for  the  title — walked  from 


156  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

his  house  at  the  northwest  corner  of  the  Green1  down  to  the  old 
meeting  house  of  1742,  to  ring  the  nine  o'clock  bell  on  the  even- 
ing of  December  31,  1800,  he  was  but  following  a  custom  which 
had  prevailed  in  the  parish  fifty  years,  possibly  longer.  On  that 
night  we  are  assured  by  one-  who  kept  a  private  weather  bureau 
of  "aftercasts,"  that  "it  was  clear  and  moderately  cold — a  light 
snow  lay  on  the  ground."  But  Mr.  Ralph  had  on  his  "pea- 
jacket"  and  woolen  mittens,  and  having  once  undergone  the 
rigors  of  a  campaign  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  doubtless  paid 
little  attention  to  the  weather.  The  "new  stepel"  of  the  meeting 
house  rose  white  and  cold  in  the  starlight,  and  our  bell-ringer 
carefully  setting  down  an  old  battered  tin  lantern,  drew  from  his 
pocket  a  long  iron  key  and  unlocked  the  creaking  door  in  the 
steeple  tower.  The  bell  rope  dangled  just  inside  and  Mr.  Ralph 
knew  exactly  how  far  to  advance  in  the  darkness,  how  to  clutch 
it,  and  with  a  few  vigorous  strokes  ring  the  "curfew  bell."  On 
some  summer  nights,  it  is  said,  the  near-by  children  would  cau- 
tiously steal  around  the  corner  to  watch  the  old  veteran  sway  the 
clanging  bell,  and  then  go  scudding  home  on  nimble  feet,  for  not 
only  must  the  household  fire  be  covered  at  that  signal,  but  the 
children  must  be  in  bed. 

Who  heard  the  tones  of  that  curfew  bell  one  hundred  years 
ago?  According  to  the  Grand  List  there  were  in  the  year  1800, 
one  hundred  eighty-three  men  who  paid  a  poll  tax  in  the  town, 
one  hundred  fifty-nine  of  whom  were  enrolled  in  the  First 
Ecclesiastical  Society  and  twenty-four  in  the  Episcopal  Society. 
These  persons  owned  about  two  hundred  houses,  all  apparently 
having  more  or  less  dwellers  in  them — generally  more !  Per- 
haps if  the  atmospheric  conditions  were  suitable,  all  this  people 
were  within  reach  of  the  tones  of  the  curfew.  Those  who  did 
not  hear  it,  probably  dwelt  at  Muddy  River  and  walked  by  faith. 

And  yet  the  parish  was  not  wholly  dependent  on  this  system 
of  chronology,  for  there  were  five  clocks  of  the  first-class  and  six 
of  the  second-class  in  1800 ;  besides,  there  were  twenty-three 
watches.  But  the  possession  of  these  timepieces  gave  our  cur- 
few   ringer    no    concern    whatever.     Although    owning    neither 


1  Site  of  the  Reynolds  Estate. 

2  Jeremiah  Ailing. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  1 57 

clock  nor  watch  himself,  he  rose  superior  to  all  such  frail  mechan- 
isms and  rang-  the  hour  by  "intuition"  (?),  as  it  is  related  that  either 
he  or  "Granny  Ralph" — his  wife — would  run  nightly  across  the 
street  to  Dr.  Joseph  Foote's  house  to  "bony  the  time,"  and  then 
at  such  an  interval  as  seemed  suitable  to  him,  the  nine-o'clock 
bell  would  be  rung.  The  service  finally  became  so  erratic  that 
the  people  headed  by  Dr.  Trumbull  arose  in  their  wrath  and  de- 
posed Dr.  Ralph  from  his  position. 

This  custom  of  an  evening  bell  continued  till  about  1830.  The 
increased  number  of  timepieces  in  the  community,  and  the  grow- 
ing tendency  of  the  citizen  to  regulate  his  own  down-sittings  and 
up-risings,  swept  it  away.  A  few3  are  still  living  who  remember 
hearing  the  well  known  peals  as  they  rang  out  on  the  stillness  of 
a  summer  night. 

My  townsmen !  the  curfew  announcing  the  close  of  the  nine- 
teenth century  rang  but  a  little  time  since.  The  echoes  of  can- 
non and  bell,  as  they  gave  notice  at  midnight  in  De- 
cember last  that  a  new  century  was  born,  may  be  still  sounding 
in  the  ears  of  these  children.  A  new  Century !  Who  compre- 
hends it  ?  What  issues  are  concealed  within  it !  what  revelations 
to  be  made  by  it !  what  beneficence  to  flow  from  it !  for  that  it 
will  be  beneficent  poet  and  prophet  are  agreed. 

Happy  America !  whose  people  entered  upon  the  Golden  Age 
one  hundred  years  ago !  Happy  America !  whose  sons  have  seen 
in  the  century  just  closed  a  period  more  significant  than  any  in 
historic  time.  Happy  America !  and  O  happy  children  who  have 
now  entered  upon  a  cycle  of  years  which  will  as  far  outshine  the 
last  century,  as  the  last  outshines  all  the  preceding.  Life  is 
worth  living  now, — has  been  worth  living  in  the  past — and  is  to 
be  doubly  enjoyable  in  the  future.  Who  before  me  regrets  the 
providence  that  has  placed  us  where  the  centuries  meet !  None ! 
For  this  hour  were  we  born !  for  the  next  hour  others  shall  rise, 
more  competent,  larger  souled,  holier  purposed,  and  better  able 
to  wing  on  the  world  from  sin  to  grace,  and  grace  to  glory. 

In  the  year  1700  the  population  of  this  parish  was  estimated 


3  Mrs.  Elmina  Thorpe,  Henry  M.  Blakslee,  Erus  Bishop,  and  others. 


158  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

as  one  hundred.4  In  the  year  1800  it  was  given  as  eleven  hun- 
dred fifty-seven,  and  in  the  year  1900  as  two  thousand,  one 
hundred  sixty-four.5  This  increase  is  much  less  than  should 
be  expected  in  two  hundred  years.  Indeed,  it  may  be  said,  that 
with  the  advantage  of  locality,  nearness  to  tidewater,  varied  sur- 
face, and  close  proximity  to  city  privileges,  the  population  should 
be  double  the  present  census,  and  even  more. 

Two  causes  have  operated  to  retard  our  growth.  First,  a  large 
emigration  to  northwestern  Connecticut ;  and  second,  the  natural 
conservatism  of  the  settlers  and  their  descendants.  An  emigra- 
tion began  about  1740,  which  continued  up  to  1800-1810.  Dur- 
ing this  period  many  of  the  most  respected  families6  removed  to 
other  localities.  They  were  people  whom  the  town  could  illy 
afford  to  lose,  because  they  added  wealth  and  character  to  the 
parishes  where  they  settled. 

Probablv  of  these  emigrants  none  had  greater  influence  in  the 
community  whither  they  went  than  Thomas  Blakeslee  and 
Thomas  Ives.  The  former  was  the  son  of  Ebenezer  Blakeslee,  at 
whose  house7  both  the  Congregational  and  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land8 people  early  worshipped. 


4  In  1790 — 1st  census— there  were  595  males,  626  females,  7  slaves,  and  8  "  others  " 

6  Census  report. 

6  Caleb  Humaston,  removed  to  Plymouth,  Conn.,  soon  after  173S 


Lieut.  John  Humaston, 

"              " 

1736 

Dea.  Moses  Blakslee, 

II                         1 1 

•' 

1739 

Rev.  Samuel  Todd, 

" 

1740 

William  Luddington, 

l(                 1. 

.1 

1738 

Jonathan  Frost, 

It                       II                       < 

1735 

Ebenezer  Frost, 

11                     It 

'' 

'744 

Hezekiah  Todd, 

"      Wolcott,         ' 

'          about 

1754 

Jehiel  Tuttle, 

"      Torrington, 

11               11 

1770 

Major  Isaiah  Tuttle, 

"               " 

It                           II 

1773 

Ezra  Pierpont, 

"      Waterbury,    ' 

,1                           11 

1780 

Giles  Brockett, 

u                   n 

II 

1803 

James  Bishop, 

"      Farmington, 

"         before 

1780 

John  Seeley, 

"  Gt.  Barrington, 

Mass  , 

1701 

Isaac  Seeley, 

n                     u 

11 

1799 

Abraham  Seeley, 

"                     " 

" 

1798 

William  Crane, 

11                     11 

l* 

1794 

Samuel  Ives, 

11                     11 

k* 

1793 

Joel  Thorpe  removed  in  an  ox  cart  to  Ashtabula  County,  Ohio, 
about  1800.     He  was  killed  in  the  war  of  1812. 


'  Eccl.  Soc.  Records,  page  3. 

*  North  Haven  Annals,  page  130. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  1 59 

He  was  born  in  the  year  1700  and  went  to  Plymouth  in  173 1 . 
He  married  Mar\'  Scott  of  Sunderland,  Mass.  They  had  nine 
children.  He  received  the  title  of  Captain  in  the  State  Militia  in 
1740,  and  his  house  was  palisaded  as  a  defence  against  the 
Indians.  He  was  one  of  "nineteen  proprietors"  who  built  the 
first  meeting  house  in  Plymouth1'  and  called  the  Rev.  Samuel 
Todd  of  Xorth  Haven  to  preach  in  it.  When  an  Ecclesiastical 
Society  was  organized  there  later,  its  members  desired  a  meeting 
house  in  a  different  location.  The  proprietors  objected,  but  were 
outvoted,  and  Captain  Blakeslee  with  eleven  others  withdrew  and 
formed  a  Society  of  the  Church  of  England.  In  1811-1812 
descendants  of  his  founded  Plymouth,  Ohio,  and  organized  an 
Episcopal  Church  there.     He  died  in  1778. 

Thomas  Ives  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Anna  (Heaton), 
born  in  Xorth  Haven,  1753.  He  was  graduated  from  Yale  Col- 
lege 1//7',  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war;  studied  law  in 
Litchfield,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  that  county.  In  1782 
he  settled  in  his  profession  in  Great  Barrington,  Mass.1"  He 
married  Ruth  Foster,  a  lady  of  high  birth  and  much  influence  in 
Massachusetts  politics.  He  became  a  member  of  the  General 
Assembly  and  served  in  both  houses.  He  also  was  identified 
with  the  militia  and  rose  to  the  rank  of  major-general  of  the 
Xinth  Division.  In  other  ways  he  received  honor  from  town, 
state,  and  nation. 

The  record  of  emigrant  families  given  falls  much  short  of  the 
actual  number.  Dr.  Trumbull  wrote11  that  about  150  families 
left  the  parish  between  1760  and  1800.  It  is  difficult  to  account 
for  this  shrinkage.  We  can  imagine  how  different  our  surround- 
ings would  be  to-day  had  they  remained,  but  the  human  tide  was 
destined  to  ever  flow  outward  from  Xew  England,  and  so  our 
fathers  arose,  almost  as  by  divine  impulse,  and  gat  them  to  lands, 
in  one  sense,  they  knew  not  of. 

It  will  be  material  at  this  time  to  note,  for  a  moment,  the 
administrative  element  in  the  early  part  of  the  last  century.  Ec- 
clesiastical influence  in  home  affairs  did  not  wholly  cease  at  our 
incorporation   (1787).     The   spell   of  authority   which   the   Xew 


9  Atwater's  Plymouth,  pages  29  and  31. 

10  History  Gt.  Barrington. 
1  ]  Century  sermon. 


i6o 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


England  divine  exercised,  particularly  in  the  country  villages, 
remained  potent  until  well  along  in  the  century.  The  intent  of 
the  New  Haven  colonists  that  the  Church  should  furnish  the 
foundation  for  all  civil  government,  found  a  supporter  in  Dr. 
Benjamin  Trumbull.  He  was  something  of  a  dictator — probably 
less  autocratic  than  his  predecessor,  the  Rev.  Isaac  Stiles,  yet  by 
virtue  of  birth — war  record — literary  ability,  and  pulpit  prestige, 
was  able  to  dominate  largely  in  secular  matters.  And  this  he  did 
almost  single  handed.     His  church  in  1800  was  at  a  low  ebb  and 


gradually  declining.  The  First  Ecclesiastical  Society  organized 
in  1716  and  the  Church  of  England  Society  organized  in  1759, 
were  apparently  more  engaged  in  swapping  members  to  avoid 
taxation,  than  promoting  the  spread  of  the  gospel.  The  Grand 
Eists  of  the  town  are  complete  from  1787  to  the  present  year. 
Originally  every  adult  male  was  compelled  to  identify  himself 
with  one  or  the  other  of  the  societies  for  purposes  of  taxation,  and 
as  there  were  two  tax  collectors  for  some  years,  and  apparently  a 
difference  of  a  farthing  or  two  in  the  amounts  to  be  gathered,  we 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


161 


have  surprising  evidence  of  the  nimbleness  of  some  of  our  fathers 
in  jumping  from  one  society  to  the  other  and  then  back  again, 
as  it  appeared  best  for  their  interest.  This  athletic  exercise 
ceased  about  the  year  1814. 

With  the  death  of  Dr.  Trumbull  in  1820  the  ecclesiastical 
hand  in  town  government  was  still  further  withdrawn,  only  to 
wholly  vanish  during  the  great  revival  under  the  Rev.  William 
J.  Boardman.  The  separation  of  Church  and  State  became  com- 
plete when  the  town  voted  in  1834  "it  would  no  longer  pay  for 
ringing  the  Presbyterian  church  bell." 

A  second  view^  of  the  evolution  of  the  town  may  be  had  from 
manuscripts  unexpectedly  discovered.  In  the  year  1800  the 
population  was  1,157,  as  said.  There  was  received  by  the  select- 
men from  taxation,  and  from  the  sale  of  old  highways,  $856.80. 

The  expenses  for  twelve  paupers  were,   .         .     $264.79 


For  highways, 
For  sundries. 
Balance  in  treasury, 

In  1803  the  receipts  were, 
The  expenses  were, 
Balance  in  treasurv, 


17346 

23 1. 3812 
187.17 


$586.72 
218.26 


$804.98 


In  1805  the  Town  Treasurer  was  paid  $5.00  for  services  and 
the  Town  Collector  $13.00. 

In  1806  the  authorities  pared  taxation  so  close  that  but 
$527.91  was  received.  The  expenses  were  $538.75,  leaving  the 
first  deficit  the  town  incurred.  The  following  year  this  was  re- 
covered and  a  surplus  established.  Xo  other  audits  are  discov- 
ered until  the  year  1867,  when  the  town  issued  its  first  printed 
report. 

In  the  year  1900,  with  a  population  less  than  twice  that  of 
1800,  there  was  received  from  all  sources13       .  $33,369.09 
The  liabilities  were,        ....     54,580.98 


Debt  of  the  town, 


.  $21,211.89 


'-  Includes  S19.50  paid  Dr.  Ralph  for  ringing  church  bell. 
13   Town  Report,  1900. 
I  I 


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NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


The  above  indebtedness  stands  mainly  for  seven  and  a  half 
miles  of  rock  ballasted,  stone  bridged  highways,  constructed  at  an 
average  cost  of  $5,000.00  per  mile,  and  second  to  none  in  the  State. 
The  first  attempt  at  road  paving  on  any  considerable  scale  was 
begun  in  1871.  Oyster  shells  were  used  on  the  main  highway 
in  the  third  school  district  under  the  direction  of  A.  F.  Austin, 
Selectman.     In  the  year  1872,  7,395  bushels  were  so  applied  at 


Lawrence  Bruce. 

Highway  Contractor. 


Andrew  F.  Austin. 

Member  General  Assembly,  1882. 
Selectman  and  Town  Agent  15  years. 
Ex-Superintendent  Public  Schools. 
Present  Trial  Justice,  with  42  years'  record. 


an  average  cost  of  one  cent  per  bushel.  This  amount  was  in- 
creased year  by  year  until  in  1876  it  reached  15,185  bushels.  In 
1878,  13,735  bushels,  and  in  lesser  amounts  until  1881,  when  the 
roads  were  let  by  separate  contract  in  each  district.  This  plan 
proved  more  economical  than  satisfactory,  and  in  1888  Lawrence 
Bruce  was  employed  to  take  entire  charge.  Macadamizing  with 
crushed  stone  began  in  1889.     Since  then  at  intervals,  with  and 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  163 

without  State  aid,  the  town  has  constructed  most  durable  road 
bed  where  before  only  sand  or  slough  existed. 

The  early  roads  of  the  parish  were  not  much  more  than  bridle 
paths.  Even  in  1800  they  were  in  deplorable  condition.  The 
original  survey  of  Xew  Haven  Colony  contemplated  a  system  of 
"squares"  80  rods  by  160  rods  with  broad  highways  between. 
Rivers  and  ledges  offered  no  objection.  The  routes  were  plotted 
whether  the  settler  followed  them  or  not,  and  that  he  did  not,  is 
in  evidence  by  the  frequent  changes  the  selectmen  of  the  towns 
made.  This  left  considerable  areas  which  the  thrifty  authorities 
turned  to  account  by  leasing  portions  temporarily  or  selling  the 
grass  thereon.  Just  when  the  first  highway  tax  was  laid  is  un- 
certain. In  1830  one  mill  on  the  dollar  was  ordered  "worked 
out"  under  the  direction  of  district  surveyors.  This  plan  con- 
tinned  twenty  years,  but  was  little  more  than  a  farce.  The  aged 
residents  leaned  on  their  shovels,  chewed  tobacco  and  guessed 
where  the  work  ought  to  be  done.  The  younger  men  sat  on 
their  ploughs  and  bragged  how  much  their  oxen  could  draw. 
This  "meet"  was  usually  held  twice  a  year,  spring  and  fall.  In 
1801,  however,  if  a  heavy  snowfall  occurred,  the  farmers  gathered 
with  their  teams,  broke  out  the  roads  and  donated  their  labor. 
In  1901,  if  snowT  falls,  whoever  removes  any  from  the  highway, 
seeks  the  selectmen  the  first  opportunity  and  demands  payment. 

COMMON  SCHOOLS. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  the  present  century  will  devise  some  system 
of  common  school  management,  productive  of  results  commen- 
surate with  the  funds  employed.  More  money  has  been  ex- 
pended in  teaching  "the  infant  mind  to  shoot"  in  country  district 
schools, — with  less  returns. — than  in  any  other  public  undertak- 
ing. The  First  Ecclesiastical  Society  opened  four  schools  in 
1720.  It  conducted  educational  matters  until  170,6,  when  a 
School  Society14  was  formed  and  entrusted  with  the  management. 
This  bod}-  appointed  the  school  committees  until  1838,  when  the 
privilege  was  given  to  the  districts.  In  other  respects  it 
remained  the  governing  power  until  1855,  when  the  Society  was 


14  Record  complete. 


164  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

abolished  and  the  town  assumed  charge  through  a  Board  of 
School  Visitors.  Whether  our  condition  is  more  regrettable 
than  that  of  neighboring  towns,  the  fact  remains,  that  according 
to  population,  we  have  had,  and  have  to-day,  a  less  percentage  of 
collegiate  scholars  than  we  should  have  a  right  to  expect.  Our 
children  cannot  atone  for  the  defect,  but  they  can  make  the  com- 
ing years  illustrious  through  the  pulpit,  the  bar,  the  counting 
room.  "North  Haven  is  not  a  dying  town!"13  The  blood  of 
the  old  colonists  still  lives  !  God  grant  it  may  find  higher  expres- 
sion than  ever  to  the  honor  and  renown  of  the  Twentieth  Century. 

MILITIA. 

In  the  year  1800  we  had  a  militia  company  then  nearly  a  cen- 
tury old.  It  was  formed  in  1718  1G  and  had  furnished  an  innu- 
merable quantity  of  military  titles  to  citizens  of  the  parish.  The 
great  army  of  captains,  lieutenants,  ensigns  who  aired  their 
honors  on  all  possible  occasions,  owed  their  rank  to  this  com- 
mand. Many  an  old  commission  is  now  proudly  exhibited  as 
evidence  of  "Special  trust  and  confidence"  reposed  by  the  State 
in  the  appointee.  This  militia  company  provided  volunteers  for 
the  French  War,  the  Revolutionary  War,  the  181 2  War,  and  the 
Civil  War.  Its  parade  ground  was  the  west  half  of  the  Green. 
Here  the  doughty  warriors  drilled  under  the  colors  of  England, 
or  stacked  their  "Queen's  Arms"  on  the  sward,  while  they  read 
royal  proclamations  nailed  to  the  meeting  house  door. 

Then  came  the  "days  that  tried  men's  souls,"  and  by  and  by 
there  broke  out  at  the  head  of  that  stalwart  company  one  muster 
day,  the  gladdest  sight  Xorth  Haven  eyes  had  ever  beheld — the 
Stars  and  Stripes  of  the  new  Republic !  and  under  that  flag 
marched  Trumbull  and  Pierpont  and  Bassett  and  Thorpe  and 
Barnes  and  Blakslee  and  Brockett,  and  more  than  fourscore 
others  whose  names  deserve  to  be  cut  in  enduring  cranke  and 
set  as  a  memorial  on  yonder  market  place  where  they  once  con- 
gregated. 

We  have  no  accurate  roster  of  this  old  company  until  1828. 
\n  that  year  Eliada  Sanford  was  captain,  David  T.  Bishop  lieu- 

15  Century  Sermon — Rev.  W.  G.  Lathrop,  page  19. 

16  Records  First  Ecel.  Soc. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


1 65 


tenant,  and  Alfred  Thorpe  ensign.  It  is  designated  at  that  date 
as  the  4th  Company,  ioth  Regiment,  Connecticut  Militia.  Then 
follows  a  muster  roll  of  one  hundred  fifteen  names.17  In 
1838  a  petition  signed  by  ninety-three  citizens  was  presented  to 
the  Adjutant-General  of  the  State  to  allow  the  formation  of 
another  company.  The  prayer  was  granted  and  they  organized  as 
the  2d  Light  Infantry,  ioth  Regiment,  Connecticut  Militia.  Then 
was  seen  what,  perhaps,  no  town  in  the  county — possibly  in  the 
State — could  parallel,  a  community  with  a  population  of  1,340 
furnishing  two  militia  companies  of  over  one  hundred  men  each. 
The  parade  ground  of  the  new  command  was  designated  in  1839 
as    "The    Public    Land    near    and    in    front    of    the    Episcopal 


17  Sergeant  Josiah  Todd 
Stephen  Cook 
George  Tuttle 
"  Jared  Bassett 

Corporal  Lyman  Thorpe 
"         Jacob  Dooiittie 
"         Wm.  Garry  Bassett 
Musician  Amasa  Thorpe 
"  Asahel  Pierpont 

"  Sidney  Smith 

Bassett,  Anson 
"         Isaac 

Philanso 
"  John 

"         Sharon 
Willis 
"  Zenas 

Beach,  William 
Hubbard 
"       Sharon  V. 
"       Cyrus 
Barnes,  Daniel 
"'         Jesse 
"         Levi 
"         Chauncy 
Blakslee,  Philemon 
"         Abraham 
"         Evelyn 
"         William 
"  Benjamin 

David 
Bradley,  Miles 
"        Henry 

Eri 
"        Merlin 
"        Barzillai 
Bates,  Lewis 
Brockett,  Luman 
Levi 


Bishop,  Justus 
Button,  John 
Bigelow,  Levi 
Cooper,  Martin 
Cooke,  Homer 
Clarke,  Ararai 
Dayton,  Jonathan,  2d 

Lewis 
Dickerman,  Merit 
Ford,  Roger  W. 
Finch,  Daniel  N. 
Frost,  Leverett 
"       John,  2d 
Goodsell,  John 
Goodyear,  Bela 
Hotchkiss,  Francis 
Hough,  Alonzo  B. 
Heaton,  Julius 
Hull,  Jar  vis 
Ives,  Harvey 
Johnson,  Henry 
Jacobs,  Russell 
"       Joseph 
"        Ammi 
Roswell 
Lincoln,  Edward 
Marks,  Riley 
Mansfield,  Liverius 
Ebenezer 
John  L. 
Jared 
Mix,  Benjamin 

"     Samuel 
McCoy,  William 
Moulthrop,  Albert  E. 
"  Merit 

Alva 
Munson,  George 


Pardee.  John,  Jr. 
Pierpont,  David 
Elias 
"  Asahel 

"  Jared 

Miles 
Sala 
Phelps,  Ira  Bryan 
Riggs,  Joshua 
Robinson,  Jesse 
Sackelt,  Milo 
Butler 
"         Joseph,  2d 
Smith,  Ebenezer 
Henry  P. 
"       Lyman,  2d 
"       Hiram 
"       Jude  B. 
Sampson,  John 
Stiles,  Harvey 
Thorpe,  George  L. 
"         Harvey 
"         Cyrus 

James  H. 
Anson  C. 
William  D. 
Todd,  George 
Beri  M. 
Orrin 
"        Samuel  B. 
Tuttle,  Enos  T. 
"        Ithimar 
Zera  P. 
Willis 
Thompson,  William  S. 

Walter 
Warner,  Orrin 
Wolfe,  Henry  D. 


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Photo  by  Thorpe. 


Penn  Phelps  Place. 


Photo  by  Thorpe. 


John  Smith  House. 


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Church."18  The  senior  company  dressed  in  black  and  scarlet,  the 
junior  in  blue  and  white,  hence  the  "North  Haven  Blues."  They 
strove  to  outdo  their  rivals  in  drill  and  maneuvre,  and  the  story 
goes,  so  efficient  did  they  become  that  at  a  General  Training  held 
on  the  "Wallingford  Plains"  in  1843,  the  battalion  became  so 
hopelessly  entangled  in  a  complicated  movement,  that  the  com- 
manding officer,  Colonel  Bishop,  losing  his  military  dignity  and 
patience,  shouted,  "Tenth  Regiment  halt !  do  as  the  North 
Haven  Blues  do,"  whereupon  Captain  Justin  Marks  gallantly 
marched  his  company  out  of  the  snarl  and  shortly  had  the  entire 
regiment  lined  up  in  magnificent  order. 

In  these  years,  1S35-1845,  military  "pomp  and  circumstance" 
reached  high  water  mark.  With  the  advent  of  the  younger  com- 
pany, the  older  had  nothing  from  which  to  recruit  its  ranks,  and 
disbanded  about  1848  after  one  hundred  thirty  years  of  existence. 
Its  rival  also  declined  and  gave  up  the  ghost  in  185 1.  Its  local 
color  is  deposited  in  the  rooms  of  the  Memorial  Library. 

To-day's  review  of  the  nineteenth  century  would  be  incom- 
plete did  we  fail  to  briefly  contrast  its  beginning  with  its  closing 
days.  In  1801  the  farm  houses  for  the  most  part  were  of  large 
frame.  A  portion  had  the  lean-to  roof,  while  others  rose  up 
square,  gaunt  and  unpainted,  perhaps  like  the  integrity  of  their 
owners.  Again,  under  the  shelter  of  some  friendly  hill  stood  low, 
rambling  buildings,  painted  red  by  man,  brown  by  the  storms, 
and  green  by  the  drapery  of  summer,  the  whole  betokening  an 
ancient  strain  Of  blood  in  the  master,  who  all  unwittingly  had 
reproduced  some  lowly  home  of  old  England.  The  chimneys — 
"smokes" — of  these  houses  appear  to  us  unduly  large.  Many 
had  a  stone  base  twelve  feet  or  more  square.  Sometimes  this 
material  formed  the  entire  structure,  but  I  have  seen  but  a 
single  instance10  in  this  town.  Outside  blinds  to  windows  were 
unknown  then,  and  the  faded  green  paper  shade  hung  in  its  glory. 
A  narrow  "hood"  over  the  door,  or  sometimes  an  inconvenient 
"front  stoop,"  were  the  external  ornamentations.  Now  we  have 
the  elegant  lace  curtain,  and  the  light  lattice  behind  which  at  any 
angle,  our  women  may  safely  view  their  neighbors.    We  have  the 


18  See  Order  Book. 

19  House  of  John  Smith,  now  demolished. 


l68  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

capacious  piazza  and  the  overhanging  balcony.  Turret,  tower, 
gable,  finial,  rise  in  unexpected  places,  sometimes  harmonious 
and  sometimes — otherwise.  In  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth 
century  the  people  dwelt  in  rear  rooms  and  cold  unfurnished 
chambers.  There  was  lack  of  chairs,  lack  of  tables,  lack  of 
closets.  The  front  door  of  the  dwelling  rarely  opened  except 
at  the  summons  of  wedding  or  funeral.  Now  how  changed. 
Carpets,  draperies,  cushions,  sunlight,  heat,  music,  flowers  and  a 
thousand  luxuries  adorn  our  homes  and  give  life  a  charm  the 
"good  old  times"  never  knew. 

In  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century  the  farm  barns 
were  ill-conditioned,  unpainted  and  usually  placed  on  a  hill. 
To-day,  many  excel  in  convenience  and  finish  the  dwelling  of  a 
century  ago.  Then,  the  farmer  did  not  dehorn  his  cattle,  use 
patent  fertilizers,  plant  market  gardens,  run  milk  routes,  or  attend 
Pomona  Granges — but  he  does  now !  His  wife  did  not  have  a 
"separator"  in  the  dairy,  a  "sweeper"'  in  the  closet,  a  "wringer" 
in  the  kitchen,  or  a  chance  to  vote ;  but  she  docs  now ! 

In  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century  the  farmer  killed 
his  pork  in  the  "new  moon" — shaved  himself  Saturday  afternoon 
— sued  his  neighbors — and  slept  in  the  meeting  house  Sundays ! 
but  he  does  not  in  1900.  In  1801  his  wife  wore  a  "poke"  bonnet 
— took  snuff — made  her  own  yeast — weaned  her  own  children — 
and  reared  a  large  family !  but  she  does  not  now ! 

In  many  essentials  the  old  order  of  things  has  changed.  The 
lightning  rod  (common  enough  down  to  1850)  has  disappeared 
from  our  roofs  and  the  insurance  sign  from  above  our  doors. 
Man  has  not  secured  entire  immunity  from  the  destructive  forces 
of  nature,  it  is  true,  but  enormously  wealthy  corporations  stand 
ready,  with  monetary  consideration,  to  assuage  the  woes  caused 
by  their  ravages.  The  attacks  of  "the  world,  the  flesh  and  the 
devil"  need  have  no  more  fears  for  him  who  is  willing  to  pay 
insurance  premium. 

In  1801  the  farmer  wrought  out  his  fence  rails  in  the  woods 
and  built  "zig-zag"  barriers  about  his  domain  at  great  waste  of 
time  and  material.  The  cost  in  most  cases  exceeded  one  dollar 
per  rod.  Now,  with  posts  at  fifteen  cents  each,  and  wire  at  two 
cents  per  pound,  he  runs  long  lines  of  protection  about  his  farm 
at  one-quarter  the  former  cost. 


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In  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century  the  maiden  had 
her  ears  pierced  with  a  needle  some  summer  day  and  a  thread 
drawn  in  the  puncture.  Then  "to-rights"20  she  hung  rings  or 
other  emblems  thereon,  and  was  happy.  In  1845  sne  Put  on  a 
cameo  breast-pin  of  heroic  size,  dressed  her  hair  low  on  her  fore- 
head, and  had  her  "daguerreotype"  taken. 

Then,  they  slept  on  "feather  beds"  spread  on  a  heavy  wooden 
frame  with  "tester"  above  and  valance  below.  In  1901  we  have 
the  sanitary  mattress  and  its  glittering  metal  support.  Then,  they 
did  their  marketing  on  foot  with  bag  and  basket.  In  1901  the 
grocery,  the  laundry,  the  bakery,  the  market  wagon,  halts  at  our 
door  and  makes  life  worth  living — if  we  pay  the  bills. 

In  1  So  1  personal  events  had  small  circulation,  except  as  the 
tongue  of  gossip  wagged.  In  1901  no  household  is  sacred  from 
the  intrusion  of  the  amateur  press  reporter,  who  frequently  lines 
the  way  with  the  carcasses  of  distorted  statements. 

Then,  the  citizen  who  would  write  a  letter  used  either  a 
pointed  piece  of  lead  or  a  quill  pen.  (He  could  not  buy  a  steel 
pen  until  after  1830.)  His  paper  was  unruled  and  his  ink  of  home 
manufacture.  Usually  he  chose  a  stormy  Sunday  for  the  task, 
and  it  took  all  day.  He  folded  the  paper  in  most  inconvenient 
form,  and  sealed  it  with  a  red  wafer.  If  the  "writee"  lived  ninety 
miles  distant  the  postage  was  ten  cents  ;  if  one  hundred  fifty  miles, 
twelve  and  a  half  cents  ;  if  five  hundred  miles  and  more,  twenty- 
five  cents.  As  late  as  1850  we  paid  no  less  than  five  cents,  and  no 
more  than  ten  cents  postage.  Our  first  post  office  was  established 
in  1839,  m  the  dwelling  now  owned  by  Frederic  H.  Stiles.  The 
mails  were  flung  from  stages  on  the  Xew  Haven  and  Hartford 
turnpike  at  the  point  where  the  road  to  Mt.  Carmel  now  crosses 
that  thoroughfare.  Capt.  Seba  Thorpe  was  there  to  receive  and 
transfer  them,  and  Erus  Bishop  was  his  bondsman.  Later,  the 
office  was  located  in  the  brick  house,  also  used  as  a  depot,  when 
the  Xew  Haven  and  Hartford  railroad  was  opened.  The  news- 
papers were  called  for  at  their  offices  in  New  Haven,  by  various 
individuals,  and  distributed  on  Sunday.  Now,  with  writing 
papers  of  the  finest  texture, — pens  of  all  metals, — pencils  so  cheap 
we  never  husband  them, — envelopes  for  the  merest  fraction  of 


20An  expression  for  soon. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  1  7 1 

cost, — stamps  (used  about  [847)  of  all  denominations, — recep- 
tion and  delivery  of  mail  bags  by  flying  trains, — free  suburban 
delivery,'-'1 — newspapers  containing  the  condensed  events  of  the 
world  laid  twice  daily  at  our  doors,  we  seem  to  have  reached  the 
summit  of  swiftness  and  convenience  in  dealing  with  kingdom, 
empire  and  republic.  And  yet  time  and  space  are  to  be  further 
annihilated  as  the  years  roll  on. 

The  older  portion  of  the  community  has  witnessed  some 
remarkable  transformations  of  ways  and  customs  of  their  ances- 
tors. The  old  uncouth  pestle  and  mortar  for  crushing  rock  salt 
has  gone.  The  hand-mill  in  which  grains  of  coffee,  pepper  and 
the  spices  were  ground,  is  silent.  The  wheels  on  which  wool  or 
flax  was  spun, — the  looms  in  which  the  yarn  was  woven,  are 
broken  up.  The  rough  trencher,  the  pewter  plate,  the  wooden 
bottle,  the  iron  snuffers,  and  I  might  almost  add,  the  family 
cradle,  have  disappeared,  except  as  relics  of  the  past.  The  doctor, 
with  his  small  fees  and  large  prescriptions,  has  yielded  place  to 
the  physician,  with  his  large  fees  and  small  prescriptions.  We 
have  seen  the  heavy  booted  male  watcher  thrust  out  of  the  sick 
room,  and  the  gentle,  trained  female  nurse,  enter  to  soothe  our 
nerves  and  assuage  our  ailments. 

The  gallop  of  the  heavy  farm  horse  is  not  heard  as  of  yore 
in  our  streets,  nor  do  we  see  the  woman  of  1800  riding  on  a 
pillion,  but  rather,  lifting  our  eyes  from  the  old  family  Bible22 
we  are  reading  on  a  Sunday  evening,  we  behold  automobile,  and 
locomobile  and  motor-cycle  and  tandem  with  piercing  lamps  and 
noisy  riders,  threading  our  thoroughfares  with  incredible  swift-, 
ness.  We  do  not  have  our  "voices  tried"  by  the  old-fashioned 
singing-school  master,  for  that  long  cherished  institution  has 
departed  from  the  country  schoolhouse,  and  the  chorus  choirs 
which  sprang  from  it  and  sung  ''Mear"  and  "China"  and 
"Dundee"  in  the  meeting  house  have  become  the  "choir  invisi- 
ble." 

Thev  came  into  the  nineteenth  centurv  with  the  tinder-box 


21  Rural  delivery  began  in  North  Haven  December  15,  1900.  Salary  of  carrier  (John  Blaksleel, 
S500.00  per  year.  Iron  let  ter  boxes,  costing  about  one  dollar  each  to  patrons,  are  placed  convenient 
to  the  highway.  Larger  public  boxes  are  placed  at  intersections  of  main  highways  No  delivery  is 
made  within  one-half  mile  of  main  offices. 

"Nahum  2:4. 


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NORTH  HAVEN  IN  THE  NINETEENTH  CENTURY. 


and  the  tallow  candle.  We  went  out  with  the  parlor  match  and 
the  electric  light.  They  came  into  the  century  with  petty  law- 
suits among  neighbors, — with  inflexible  church  discipline, — with 
an  iron  heel  to  stamp  out  the  erring  and  the  frail ;  we  went  out 
of  the  century  with  kinder  hearts,  broader  lives,  and  the  forgive- 
ness of  the  Master. 

The  woman  tailor  who  made  men's  clothes  and  the  man  shoe- 
maker who  made  women's  shoes,  no  longer  sit  about  our  fire- 


Photo  by  Heaton 

The  Leete  Tavern.      (Estate  Henry  F.  Tuttle.) 

sides  drinking  weak  tea  and  chewing  leaf  tobacco.  We  have  seen 
the  departure  of  the  old-fashioned  almanac,  and  the  entrance  of 
the  gorgeous  calendar.  The  one  gave  us  intervals  of  two  weeks 
in  which  to  "look  out  for  rain  or  snow,"  the  other  warns  us  to 
seek  immortality  through  proprietary  medicine,  or  reminds  us 
that  our  grocers  are  doing  business  at  the  old  stand. 

We  have  witnessed  the  decline  of  the  Fulling  mill — the  Grist 
mill — the  Saw  mill — the  Cider  mill!  but  as  compensation,  we 
have  received  ten  millions  of  cotton  spindles — patent  prepara- 


NORTH     HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  173 

tions  of  the  cereals — Lumber  from  the  tropics — and  whiskey  from 
the  distiller,  "four  full  quarts  for  three  dollars  and  sixty-nine 
cents."1'1  We  know  that  from  the  incorporation  of  the  town  to 
i860  the  political  atmosphere  was  democratic.  Since  the  Civil 
war  the  republican  wing  has  had  the  majority.  Once  we  wanted 
men  for  office  ;  now  we  want  office  for  men. 

One  hundred  years  ago  Sabbath  Day  Houses  fringed  the 
southern  and  part  of  the  western  border  of  our  Green.  The 
venerable  Dr.  Trumbull's  cider  mill  was  in  close  proximity  to  the 
eastermost  of  these  buildings.  The  mill  was  a  clumsy  structure, 
without  covering,  built  upon  the  lines  of  the  eighteenth  century, 
and  stood  opposite  the  small  brick  house  by  the  brook. 

The  apples  were  crushed  by  a  heavy  wooden  wheel  traveling 
in  a  narrow  trough  built  in  a  circle,  with  a  diameter  of  thirty  or 
more  feet.  This  wheel  turned  upon  a  long  axle,  the  opposite  end 
being  pivoted  in  the  center  of  the  circle.  Oxen  furnished  the 
motive  power,  and  it  was  the  small  boys'  duty  to  ride  on  the  long 
arm  and  see  that  they  kept  moving.  When  the  fruit  was  reduced 
to  the  proper  pulp,  it  was  shoveled  upon  a  platform,  made  into 
a  "cheese"  with  straw,  and  then  subjected  to  all  the  pressure 
huge  wooden  screws  turned  by  arm  power  could  give.  The 
present  strained  relations  between  cider  and  theology  did  not 
exist  in  that  day;  indeed,  in  the  quality  of  "hardness,"  some  have 
come  to  think  they  were  quite  akin  in  1801. 

We  have  witnessed  the  untimely  end  of  the  old-fashioned 
school  exhibition,  the  Lyceum,  and  the  Debating  Society,24  but 
in  their  place  have  come  up  the  "Chautauqua  Circle" — the  "Uni- 
versity Extension"  and  the  "Whist  Club." 

We  do  not  now  patronize  "Turkey  shooting  matches"  at  the 
old  Leete  tavern  on  the  Hartford  turnpike,  or  attend  "Balls"  in 


23  Magazine  advertisements 

24  The  earliest  Debating  Society  of  which  any  record  is  found  met  in  1829-30,  in  Amasa 
Thorpe's  ball-room.  Among  the  disputants  were  the  Rev.  William  J.  Boardman,  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church,  William  Hartley,  William  Ives,  Ward  Peck.  Eliada  Sanford,  Benjamin 
Eastman,  James  H.  Thorpe,  David  T.  Bishop,  Jesse  Andrews,  Jr  ,  Willis  Tuttle,  and  twenty 
others,  and  more.     Some  of  the  questions  discussed  were: 

'"Ought  the  poor  to  be  supported  by  law"  ? 

"Is  self-love  the  moving  cause  of  all  our  actions"  ' 

"Are  the  abilities  of  females  equal  to  males"  ? 

"Ought  slaves  in  the  United  States  be  immediately  emancipated"  ? 

This  society  was  revived  in  1857,  and  had  a  run  of  three  years,  and  again  in  1872. 


174  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

Jesse  Andrews'  once  famous  hostelry,2'"'  but  we  do  go  to  ball 
games — promote  euchre  parties — and  win  booby  prizes. 

They,  saw  the  citizen  of  1800- 1840  carried  in  a  white  wood 
coffin  on  a  bier  to  the  burying  ground.  Few  or  no  words  were 
spoken,  and  the  grave  was  closed  while  the  concourse  waited. 
No  tribute  of  regard  was  displayed,  and  the  expense  rarely 
exceeded  ten  dollars.  Now  the  deceased  is  placed  in  a  casket 
and  carried  in  a  hearse  to  the  cemetery.  Evergreens  and  drapery 
make  wretched  attempts  to  soften  the  outlines  of  his  narrow 
home.  There  is  no  sound  of  falling  clods.  Expensive  marks  of 
esteem  abound  ;  the  people  gradually  melt  away  and  the  under- 
taker sends  in  a  bill  of  one  hundred  dollars — or  more ! 

When  the  old  housekeepers  in  the  nineteenth  century  related 
to  their  grandchildren  the  story  of  the  days  in  which  they  lived, 
they  spoke  of  "cranes"  and  "trammels"  and  "hooks"  and  "peels," 
and  the  child  wot  not  what  was  meant.  But  these  now  obsolete 
words  stood  then  for  the  indispensable  fixtures  of  the  old-fash- 
ioned fire-place.  The  junk  man  has  carried  them  all  away,  with 
the  big  iron  kettles  they  supported,  and  the  "skillets"  that  kept 
them  company. 

In  1849-50  we  were  rocked  from  center  to  circumference  of 
tbe  town  by  the  discovery  of  gold  on  the  Pacific  coast.  It  was 
a  theme  of  more  importance  than  was  the  Mexican  War  a  year 
or  two  earlier.  No  one  wished  any  part  in  the  latter — every  one 
wished  a  chance  in  the  former.  Twelve  of  our  citizens2'5  became 
"Argonauts"  and  sailed  away  for  the  "golden  fleece,"  either 
around  Cape  Horn,  or  by  way  of  the  Isthmus.  All  returned  in 
safety,  some  bringing  wealth  and  some — experience. 

They  came  into  the  nineteenth  century  with  the  scythe — the 
sickle — the  flail — the  quill  pen.  We  went  out  of  it  with  the  mow- 
ing machine — the  harvester — the  thresher — the  typewriter.  Then, 
they  stored  no  ice,  canned  no  meats,  burned  no  coal,  rode  no 
bicycle.  Old  things  have  passed  away !  All  things  have  become 
new !  The  shore  house,  the  Sunday  paper,  the  potato  bug-,  the 
hammock,  the  electric  car,  the  "bargain  counter,"  the  buffalo 
beetle,  the  divorce  court,  the  "new  woman,"  have  come  into  our 


25  North  Haven  Annals,  page  269. 
2ft  See  page  130. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  1 75 

horizon,  some  to  bless  and  some  to  curse.  Once,  there  was 
expressed  very  little  sentiment  and  less  enthusiasm  at  the  doings 
of  the  outside  world.  Now,  we  wear  badges  at  our  collar,  display 
the  national  colors  from  our  dwellings,  keep  Christmas,  and  shout 
for  Yale  University.  Once — 1837 — they  warned  all  Irishmen  out 
of  the  town,  fined  our  boys  and  girls  for  walking  on  Sunday,-7 
forbid  dancing  bears  entering  the  parish,  and  posted  the  names 
of  drunkards  in  the  tavern  bar-rooms.  Xow,  we  bring  the  alien 
and  the  foreigner  to  onr  doors — make  cycle  paths  for  our  children 
■ — go  to  the  circus — and  wink  at  the  beer  wagon. 

In  the  early  part  of  the  last  century  they  rode  in  an  oxcart  to 
New  Haven.  In  1820  they  went  in  a  wagon.  In  1839  they  made 
the  journey  by  steam,  paying  fifteen  cents  to  the  Xew  Haven  and 
Hartford  railroad  for  second-class  fare  in  the  "Jim  Crow  car," 
and  twenty-five  cents  for  a  first-class  ticket  in  the  passenger  cars. 
Thev  could  make  but  one  trip  daily.  In  1901,  for  fifteen  cents  we 
may  be  whisked  down  to  the  metropolis  nine  times  each  week 
day.-s  between  the  hours  of  6.30  a.  m.  and  11  p.  m..  and  twice  on 
Sunday. 

In  1800-1810  many  of  the  principal  men  of  the  town  borrowed 
money,  usually  from  Yale  College.-'-'  The  town,  also,  and  the 
First  Ecclesiastical  Society  made  loans  to  parties,  usually  of  small 
amounts  and  for  a  limited  time. 

In  1850  there  was  a  toll-gate  on  the  Middletown  turnpike  near 
the  house  of  John  Todd  in  the  second  district,  and  on  the  Hart- 
ford turnpike  near  the  house  of  Air.  Hart   in  the  sixth  district. 

In  the  besfinnine:  of  the  last  centurv  a  few  varieties  of  the 
apple  and  the  pear  were  the  fruits  grown.  Expansion  along  this 
line  has  been  truly  wonderful.  The  berry,  the  cherry,  the  peach, 
the  plum,  the  grape,  the  melon,  have  climbed  to  royal  heights  as 
luxuries  and  become  great  factors  in  the  commercial  world. 

In  the  besfinnine:  of  the  nineteenth  centurv  the  thriftv  mother 
turned  a  bowl  over  her  boy's  head  and  snipped  off  all  his  locks 
outside  the  rim.     This  was  a  "Xew  England  hair  cut."     The 


27  Records  Justice  Courts. 

28  A.  M.  6.29;  7  34;  8  58;  11.26.  P.  M.  1  58;  4.46;  6.29;  8.39;  11  01. 

29  1807.  Samuel  Moulthrop.  .  $  556.50  1807  Philemon  Plakslee,  .  S  619.11 
1808.  Abraham  Bishop,  .  850.00  1807.  Philemon  Pierpont,  .  1,112.35 
1807.  Ezekiel  Jacobs.   .          .  540.93 


176  NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 

remarks  incident  to  the  occasion  were  mainly  made  by  the  pro- 
testing lad,  and  it  is  now  supposed  that  this  barbarous  practice 
caused  more  boys  to  run  away  to  sea  than  all  other  causes  com- 
bined. 

But  with  the  waves  of  reform  that  have  come  rolling  in  upon 
us  for  a  hundred  years  to  wash  away  the  ancient  landmarks,  it  is  a 
joy  to  find  that  the  old  Christian  names  of  our  ancestors  have 
been  but  little  disturbed.  The  Johns  and  Williams  and  Henrys 
of  the  past  are  the  Johns  and  Williams  and  Henrys  of  the  present. 
Mary  and  Martha  and  Esther  and  Ruth  are  forever  immortalized 
in  Hebrew  story,  but  our  Marys,  and  our  Marthas  are  far  dearer 
to  us.  Their  sweet  names  drift  us  back  through  the  century,  and 
the  years  suddenly  become  peopled  with  the  women  who  helped 
make  the  town.  We  see  their  countenances  duplicated  in  their 
granddaughters'  faces.  Their  tones  are  reproduced  in  their 
grandsons'  voices.  Their  worn  Bibles  are  their  biographies,  and 
the  old-fashioned  lilac  is  their  monument.  We  are  never  far  away 
from  the  life  they  lived,  for  great  influences  never  die. 

Enough  of  these  contrasts !  They  are  suggestive  in  the 
highest  degree.  Whether  the  changes  which  have  been  wrought 
shall  redound  to  our  glory,  this  new  century  is  to  decide.  That 
merciless  jury  "The  survival  of  the  Fittest"  will  try  every  plan 
and  theory  as  never  before,  whether  it  be  good  or  whether  it  be 
evil.  But  of  one  thing  we  may  feel  assured,  that  in  spite  of  the 
drawbacks  earlier  mentioned,  emigration,  unproductiveness,  con- 
servatism, this  town  from  its  settlement  has  ever  been  reaching 
for  higher  levels.  Though  the  course  has  been  slow,  yet  it  has 
never  retrograded.  Perhaps  the  most  comprehensive  idea  of  its. 
growth  may  be  grained  from  a  brief  survev  of  our  Grand  Lists, 
which  are  intact  since  1787.  Since  it  is  impracticable  to  present 
each  year  in  detail,  the  last  century  has  been  divided  in  quarter 
sections,  hi  1800,  the.n,  the  resources  of  the  town  were  returned 
as  follows  (omitting  many  details) : 

183  Polls. 
9362  Acres  of  land. 

202  Oxen. 

572  Cows  and  other  cattle. 

194  Horses. 
Total  appraised  value,  $30,675.31. 


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177 


In  the  year  [825  the  schedule  summed  up: 

1 68  A   Polls 
1  [38]  7    Acres.  .... 

1  1  [6     Neat  cattle. 
[20     Horses,  .... 

243      Houses,         .... 
29     Wagons  and  carriages, 
[62     Clocks,  watches  and  timepieces, 

5     Mills 

3     Stores,  .... 

1      Distillery, 
1      Carding  mill, 

Bank  and  turnpike  stock,  . 
Money  at  interest. 
Sundries, 


$     5,055.00 

302,952.00 

15,856.00 

4,169.00 

102,036.00 

813.00 

729.00 

3,300.00 

675.00 

75.00 

1,225.00 

737.00 

11,281.00 

307.00 

$449,210.00 


Summary  of  the  Grand  List  for  1850 

254  Polls, 
1 1258  Acres, 
884  Neat  cattle,    . 
201   Horses, 

2J2    Houses. 

223  Wagons  and  carriages, 
29  Mills,  stores  and  manufactories, 

626  Sheep  and  swine, 
Farming  tools, 
9  Musical  instruments. 

Household  furniture  and  libraries 
Bank  stock, 

Investment  in  trade,  etc., 
Money  at  interest  and  deposit. 
Other  taxable  properties, 


$     2,540.00 

327,023.00 

16,227.00 

7,254.00 

120,425.00 

4,657.00 

7,137.00 

4,362.00 

4,186.00 

255-00 

13,323.00 

2,730.00 

11,195.00 

49,463.00 

17.330.00 

$588,107.00 


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Summary  of  the  Grand  List  for  1875  : 

157  Polls  ($1.00), 
138      "     (military)  ($2.00), 
1 1664  Acres, 
722  Neat  cattle, 
413  Horses, 
372  Houses, 
7  Stores, 
15  Manufactories, 
163  Carriages, 
346  Timepieces,    . 
57  Musical  instruments, 
112  Dogs, 

Stocks,  all  kinds, 

Investments,  trade  and  manufacture, 

Money  at  interest  and  deposit, 


$ 


157.00 

276.00 

402,578.00 

19,064.00 

21,490.00 

261,645.00 

8,700.00 

1 1,150.00 

8,424.00 

1,875.00 

2,388.00 

116.00 

27,586.00 

12,987.00 

1 6,03 1 .00 


Other  taxable  properties  and  additions,  15,009.00 


$809,476.00 

In  the  year  190030  the  following'  return  was  made  by  Lewis  I. 
Fowler  and  Frederic  E.  Jacobs,  Assessors : 
438  Dwelling  houses,  . 
1 1904  Acres  of  land, 

28  Mills  and  manufactories  with  their 
investments, 
490  Horses,  .... 

1263  Cattle,  .... 

Swine  and  poultry, 
Farm  utensils  not  exempted, 
12  Gold  watches  (value  over  $50.00), 
66  Pianos  and  other  musical  instruments, 
218  Pleasure  wagons  and  carriages, 
Bank  and  insurance  stock,  . 
8  Stores   and   investments, 
Money  at  interest, 
Other  taxable  property, 


$3395985-00 
347>935-oo 


74,380.00 

18,335.00 

21,400.00 

635.00 

750.00 

400.00 

6,675.00 

6,540.00 

24,810.00 

13,400.00 

13,865.00 

1,937.00 


(115  taxable  polls  at  $1.00  each). 


5871,047.00 


30  In  1890  the  total  valuation  was  $792,840.00. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN     THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY.  179 

It  must  be  remembered  that  the  foregoing  valuations  are  not 
based  on  an  absolute  standard,  but  represent  the  judgments  of 
the  different  boards  of  assessors.  Something  like  a  two-thirds 
appraisal  of  the  actual  value  of  the  property  is  generally  at- 
tempted in  this  town. 

But  though  there  is  apparently  no  bounds  to  history,  there 
should  be  to  the  recital  of  its  events.  It  has  been  the  endeavor 
of  the  speaker  to  keep  within  local  limits,  reserving  for  others  to 
recount  the  deeds  of  State  and  nation.  .Much  has  been  left 
unsaid  of  usage  and  custom,  and  perhaps  much  more  ought  to 
have  been.  An  hour  in  which  to  review  a  century's  work  is  an 
altogether  too  little  point  of  time. 

If  it  be  asked  in  closing,  what  great  events  have  been  most 
far-reaching  in  their  influence  in  this  town,  I  answer  unhesita- 
tingly, the  great  revivals  of  1820-30,  and  the  Civil  War  1861-65. 
The  former  in  the  first  half  of  the  century  set  squarely  on  their 
feet  a  generation  of  young  people,  who  made  Jesus  Christ  the 
guide  of  their  youth.  From  that  day  began  flowing  a  tide  whose 
waves  have  lapped  all  our  homes  with  water  from  the  River  of 
Life.  The  Civil  War  in  the  latter  half  of  the  century  also  called 
a  generation  to  its  feet.  There  rose  up  those  who  made  their 
Country  their  guiding  star  and  counted  their  lives  as  nothing 
that  freedom  might  live.  From  that  hour  the  brotherhood  of 
man  took  on  a  new  meaning  and  the  world  went  "marching  on." 
So,  then,  with  one  generation  for  God,  and  one  generation  for 
Country,  our  children  are  inheritors  by  blood  and  record  of  the 
proudest  birthright  earth  can  bestow.  The  gray  haired  men  of 
1865,  and  the  grayer  headed  men  of  1825,  are  here  to-day  wit- 
nesses to  what  God  has  wrought.  They  have  fought  the  fight, 
thev  have  finished  their  course.  Henceforth  thev  commit  to 
the  keeping  of  these  children  a  trust  handed  down  for  more  than 
two  hundred  years  from  father  to  son, — the  good  name  and  the 
unsullied  reputation  of  the  town  of  North  Haven. 

It  will  be  vain  to  forecast  the  future.  "Whether  there  be 
prophecies  they  shall  fail."  It  has  been  the  unexpected  that  as- 
tonished the  world  in  all  ages, and  it  will  be  the  unexpected  which 
shall  work  the  mighty  changes  of  the  hereafter.  But  for  all  this 
we  are  not  here  to  surrender  our  conviction  that  the  Nineteenth 


i  So 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


Century  has  been  the  Golden  Age  of  the  world  !  We  know  it !  we 
helped  make  it !  Every  century  lias  said  the  same,  and  the  say- 
ing- has  been  true  !  Whatever  the  conditions  of  life,  whatever  the 
level  of  civilization,  man  never  stepped  from  one  century  into 
another  without  his  loins  being  better  girded  and  his  lamp 
brighter  trimmed.  This,  this,  is  Evolution!  a  law  of  God,  un- 
erring as  the  course  of  a  star — a  law  which  will  at  last  dissolve 
these  elements  and  out  of  them  evolve  a  "new  heaven  and  a  new 
earth"  where  men  will  dwell  in  peace  and  centuries  pass  un- 
heeded. 


7 


Photo  by  Thorpe. 


Congregational  Chl'rch  in  1S95. 


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181 


Estate  of  Dennis  Thorpe. 


The  Eri  Bradley   Homestead.     (Oldest  House  in  the  Town.) 


182 


NORTH    HAVExN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


THE  COLLATION. 


The  Collation  as  designed  by  Mr.  William  E.  Dickerman, 
will  be  laid  in  Linsley's  hall  for  the  children,  and  in  Memorial 
hall  for  the  public  at  large.  It  is  planned  to  provide  for  between 
two  thousand  and  three  thousand  people.  A  substantial  dinner 
will  be  furnished  for  a  small  compensation,  it  not  being  the  in- 
tention of  the  committee  to  provide  this  meal  entirely  free. 
Further  detail  is  necessarily  omitted,  as  much  modification  of  the 
present  plans  may  take  place.  The  following  corps  of  assistants 
has  been  carefully  selected  and  approved  by  the  General  Com- 
mittee: 


TABLE   COMMITTEE. 


Mrs.  D.  L.  Clinton, 
Mrs.  D.  W.  Patten, 
Mrs.  N.  H.  Marks. 
Mrs.  Lucia  B.  Barnes, 
Mrs.  George  H.  Cooper, 
Mrs.  Hubert  Potter, 
Mrs.   L.   Peet  Tuttle, 
Mrs.  R.  J.  Shepherd, 


Mrs.  John  Hull. 
Mrs.   Henry  Buckingham, 
Mrs.  Leonard  Wooding, 
Miss  Sarah  Dickerman, 
Mrs.  Marcus  Marks, 
Mrs.  Charles  Dudley, 
Mrs.  Frank  L.  Smith, 
Mrs.  Ernest  R.  Brockett. 


SOLICITING    COMMITTEE. 


Mrs.  Payson  B.   Orcutt, 
Mrs.  Andrew  Clinton, 
Mrs.  William  Stevens, 
Mrs.  Alex.  Smith, 
Mrs.  Robert  N.  Barnes, 
Mrs.  Albert  Brockett, 
Mrs.   Henry  Corf, 
Miss  Janie  Warner, 
Mrs.  Theo.  Eaton, 
Mrs.  Louis  R.  Hemingway, 
Mrs.   Edgar  Hemingway, 
Mrs.   Clarence  Frost, 
Mrs.  Ezra  G.  Munson, 
Mrs.  John   H.   Blakeslee, 


Miss  Clara  Bradley, 

Mrs.  William  P.   Leete, 

Mrs.  Julian  W.   Tuttle, 

Mrs.  Wilson  Doolittle, 

Mrs.  Florence  Baldwin, 

Miss  Edith  Smith, 
Miss  Mary  Eliot, 

Mrs.  Joseph  Pierpont, 

Miss  Kate  Smith, 

Mrs.  Homer  Cooper, 

Mrs.  William  B.   Roberts, 

Mrs.  George  B.  Todd, 
Miss  Emma  Brockett. 


NORTH    HAVEN    IN    THE    NINETEENTH    CENTURY. 


l83 


ASSISTANTS. 


M  i>s  Lucy  Bishop, 

Miss  Genevieve  Barnes, 

Miss  Charlotte  Barnes, 

Miss  Genevieve  Hemingway, 

Miss  Ina  Tuttle, 

Miss  Anna  Goodyear, 

Miss  Grace  Smith, 

.Mrs.  Arthur  Thorpe, 

Miss  Alice  Stiles. 

Miss  Leila  Stiles, 

Miss  Christiana  Bruce, 

Miss  Jennie  Bruce, 

Miss  Ruth  Smith, 

Miss  Bessie  Fowler, 

Aliss  Ethel  Redfield, 

Aliss  Anna  Todd, 

Miss  Lina  Todd, 

Miss  Maud  Riker, 

Miss  Bessie   Clinton, 

Miss  Cora  Eaton, 

Miss  Mabel  Palmer, 

Miss  Glenna  Bigelow, 

Miss  Eva  Beach, 

Miss  Bertha  Talmadge, 

Miss  Amanda  Zuber, 

Miss  Millie  Cooper, 

Miss  Mattie  Schneider, 

Miss  May  Brockett, 

Miss  Aurora  Uhl, 

Miss  Flora  Barnes, 

Miss   Martha   Smith. 

Miss  Minnie  Hull, 

Miss  Ethel  Goodyear, 

Miss  Grace  Morse, 

Miss  Hattie  Leete, 


Miss  Mabel  Moulton, 
Miss  Carrie  Harris, 
Miss  Bertha  Barnard, 
Miss  Ruby  Blakeslee, 
Miss  Grace  Dickerman, 
Miss  Lucy  Blakeslee, 
Miss  Eva  Doolittle, 
Miss  Anna  Banned, 
Miss   Lucy  Mansfield, 
Miss  Janet  Yale, 
Miss  Carrie  Roberts, 
Miss  Eva  Roberts, 
Aliss  Mary  Peterson, 
Mr.  Arthur  Thorpe, 
Mr.   George  E.   Bassett, 
Mr.   Benjamin   Bassett, 
Mr.  William  Marks, 
Mr.  E.  Stiles  Abel, 
Mr.  William  Todd, 
Lovell  Clinton, 
Freddie  Barnes, 
Walter  Potter, 
Ross  Judd, 
Herbert  Nichols, 
Harold  Dubois, 
Elihu  Dickerman, 
Waldo  Blakeslee, 
Herbert  Carlson, 
Arthur  Blakeslee, 
Myron  Brockett, 
Wilfred  Mansfield, 
Harold   Harrison, 
Bert.  Kegwin, 
Ray  Banned. 


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CENTURY    SERMON, 


OR 


SKETCHES 


OF 


The  History  of  the  Eighteenth  Century 

INTERSPERSED    AND    CLOSED    WITH 

SERIOUS  PRACTICAL  REMARKS. 

DELIVERED  AT  NORTH-HAVEN, 
JANUARY  i.   1 80 1. 


BY  BENJAMIN   TRUMBULL,  D.  D. 

PASTOR 

Of  the  Church  of  North-Haven. 


new- haven: 
printed  by  read  and  morse. 

■«►- — 

I  So  I. 


The  Rev.  Benjamin  Trumbull,  D.D. 

Pastor  Congregational  Church  1760-1820. 
(See  North  Haven  Annals,  pages  184-222.) 


A 
A  CENTURY    SERMON. 


I.    CHRONICLES,    XXIX.    29,    30,    AND    PSALM    LXXVJI.    II,    12. 

Now  the  a  els  of  David  the  king,  first  and  last,  behold  they  are 
written  in  the  book  of  Samuel  the  seer,  and  in  the  book  of  Nathan 
the  prophet,  and  in  the  book  of  Gad  the  seer,  with  all  his  reign  and 
his  might,  and  the  times  that  went  over  him,  and  over  Israel,  and  over 
all  the  kingdoms  of  the  countries. 

I  will  remember  the  works  of  the  Lord:  surely  I  will  remem- 
ber thy  wonders  of  old.  Twill  meditate  also  of  all  thy  work,  and 
talk  of  thy  doings. 

[Note. — The  first  twenty  pages  of   this  discourse  are 
omitted,  as  not  being  of  special  interest  to  the  reader.] 


Having  given  this  general  view  of  the  principal  events 
of  the  lall  century,  fuffer  me  to  prefent  you  with  a  fketch 
of  the  hiftory  of  this  iociety  and  town. 

The  lands  in  the  town  were  purchafed  by  the  Rev. 
John  Davenport  and  Theophilus  Eaton  Efq.  in  behalf  of 
the  firft  planters  of  New  Haven,  of  Momaugin  fachem  of 
Quinepiack,  and  Montowefe,  fon  of  an  Indian  fachem  at 
Mattabefeck,  now  Middletown.  The  agreement  with  the 
firft  of  these,  was  made  on  the  24th  of  November,  1638;  in 
which  he  concedes  all  his  right  to  all  the  lands,  rivers, 
ponds,  and  trees  within  the  utmoft  limits  of  the  faid  Quine- 
piack, with  all  the  liberties  and  appurtenances  thereof,  to 
the  faid  Davenport  and  Eaton,  and  the  other  Engliih  plant- 
ers of  New  Haven,  their  heirs  and  aiiigns,  for  ever.  The 
other  agreement  and  purchafe  was  made  December  11, 
1638,  in  which  Montowefe  confirms,  in  the  fame  ample 
manner,  a  tract  principally  north  of  the  other,  thirteen 
miles  in  breadth,  extending  eight  miles  eaft,  toward  Con- 
necticut river,  from  the  river  Quinepiack,  and  five  miles 
weft,  towards  Hudfon's  river,  and  ten  miles  in  length, 
north  and  fouth.  Thefe  two  deeds  conveyed  a  tract  of 
country  about  eighteen  miles  in  length,  and  thirteen  in 
breadth,  covering  the  whole  tract  within  the  towns  of 
New  Haven,  Woodbridge,  Hamden,  Eail  Haven  and  North 
Haven;  the  principal  part  of  the  towns  of  Wallingford  and 
Chefhire,  and  of  the  parifh  of  Northford.  By  the  terms  of 
the  agreements  and  purchafes,  the  Indians  were  to  enjoy 
lands  to  plant  on,  upon  the  eaft  fide  of  the  river,  upon  the 


[      iS8     ] 

trad  finee  called  Eafl  Haven;  they  had  alfo  the  right  of 
hunting,  fowling  and  fifliing  upon  the  lands  and  rivers 
fee u red  to  them.  On  their  part,  they  bound  themfelves 
not  to  injure  nor  affright  the  Englifh,  nor  to  enter  into 
any  combinations  againft  them. 

The  lands  having  been  thus  purchafed,  and  Governor 
Eaton  owning  a  large  tract  on  the  weft  fide  of  the  river,  it 
feems,  put  one  William  Bradley,  who  had  been  an  officer 
in  Cromwell's  army,  upon  it,  nearly  an  hundred  and  fifty 
years  ago.  He,  I  fuppofe,  was  the  fir  ft  perfon  who  came 
into  the  town.  Next  to  him,  were  Thomas  and  Nathaniel 
Yale,  who,  it  feems,  came  on  to  the  land  about  the  year 
1660.  In  a  deed  of  faid  land,  given  by  Theophilus  and 
Hannah  Eaton,  heirs  of  Governor  Eaton,  to  Thomas  Yale, 
executed  March  9,  1659,  it  appears  that  Thomas  was  then 
upon  the  land.  About  the  year  1670,  a  conliderable  num- 
ber of  the  inhabitants  of  New  Haven  moved  to  Walling- 
ford,  and  began  the  fettlement  of  that  town,  formerly  called 
New  Haven  village.  This  encouraged  the  fettlement  of 
North  Haven,  and  Jonathan  Tuttle,  about  the  fame  time, 
began  a  fettlement  near  the  river,  on  the  farm  formerly 
owned  by  Deacon  Ifaiah  Tuttle,  who  was  his  grandfon. 
Nathaniel  Thorpe,  Ebenezer  Blakflee,  and  John  Humafton, 
foon  after  fettled  on  the  eaftern  bank  of  the  river  near  the 
centre  of  the  town.  Daniel  and  Thomas  Barns,  Thomas 
Jacobs,  and  Mofes  Brockett,  made  fettlements  near  the 
river,  on  the  eaft  fide  of  it,  about  a  mile  north  of  the  fouth 
line  of  the  town.  Thefe  appear  to  have  been  fome  of  the 
fir  ft  fettlers;  and  they  began  the  fettlements  in  this  fcat- 
tering  manner.  Next  to  thefe  families,  were  Stephen  and 
Mofes  Clarke,  Michael  Todd,  Ebenezer  and  Thomas  Ives, 
James  Bifliop,  John  Cooper,  John  Grannis,  John  Brockett, 
and  Jofeph  Ives.  The  two  last  of  thefe,  went  firft  from 
New  Haven  to  Wallingford,  and  afterwards  moved  into 
North  Haven.  Jofeph  Ives  built  on  the  road,  about  twenty 
rods  north  of  the  houfe  erected,  at  the  corner,  by  Ifaac 
Thorpe.  In  this  the  people  met  for  public  worfhip,  until 
they  were  able  to  build  them  a  meeting  houfe.  Thefe  were 
generally  defcendants  from  the  firft  planters  of  New 
Haven.  The  names  of  a  conliderable  number  of  their 
anceftors  are  among  the  firft  freemen  and  church  mem- 
bers, who  entered  into  the  remarkable  agreement,  and  fub- 
fcribed  the  fundamental  articles  of  government,  adopted 
at  Quinepiack,  June  4,  1639*. 

The  fettlement  was  very  ilow,  and  it    feems,  that  for 
nearly  forty  years,  fome  of  the  firft  planters  attended  pub- 

*  William  Tuttle,   John  Cooper,  William   Thorpe,   John    Brockett, 
William  Ives,  and  James  Clarke,  are  expreffed  by  name. 


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lie  worfhip,  and  buried  their  dead  at  New  Haven.  The 
women  ul'ually  went  on  foot  to  New  Haven,  on  the  Lord's 
clav,  attended  two  long  exercifes,  and  returned.  In  some 
mllances  they  did  this  with  a  child  in  their  arms*.  The 
inhabitants  were  not  made  a  ditlinct  ecclefiaftical  fociety, 
until  the  feffions  of  the  general  aflembly,  in  October  1716, 
when  they  were  veiled  with  all  the  privileges  of  fuch  a 
fociety.  The  honorable  Nathan  Gold,  Efq,  deputy  governor, 
and  the  Rev.  Samuel  Andrews,  then  paftor  of  the  church, 
at  Milford,  were  appointed  a  committee  to  repair  to  North 
Haven,  and  to  aliifl  the  parifh  in  appointing  a  place  in 
which  to  ere6t  their  meeting  houfe,  and  to  advife  them  with 
refpect  to  the  fettlement  of  an  orthodox  and  worthy  min- 
ifler.  The  Rev.  Mr.  James  Pierpont  had  given  them  the 
plat  of  ground,  on  which  the  meeting  houfe  now  flands, 
upon  condition,  that  the  people  would  ere6t  their  houfe  of 
worfhip  upon  it.  This  was  thankfully  accepted.  A  houfe 
for  public  worfhip  was  erected  about  1618;  38  or  40  by  28. 
The  polls  were  of  a  proper  height  for  good  galleries. 

While  the  parifh  were  tranfacling  thofe  affairs,  they 
had  invited  Mr.  James  Wetmore  to  fettle  with  them  in  the 
work  of  the  gofpel  minillry.  At  the  feffion  of  the  general 
aflembly,  in  May  1718,  the  aflembly  gave  the  inhabitants 
liberty  to  form  into  a  church.  And  the  November  follow- 
in  o-  Mr.  Wetmore  was  ordained. 


■& 


At  the  time  when  the  parifh  was  formed,  the  limits  of 
it  extended  confiderably  north  and  weft  of  the  ground  on 
which  the  meeting  houfe  in  Mount  Carmel  has  fince  been 
erecled,  and  comprehended  twelve  families,  which,  before 
1 7 16,  were  fettled  upon  that  tract.  The  whole  number  of 
families,  at  the  time  when  they  were  made  a  parifh,  was 
about  forty.  Mr.  Wetmore  was  greatly  efleemed  and 
beloved  by  his  people;  but  after  he  had  laboured  with  them 
for  nearly  four  years,  he  altered  his  fentiments,  and  in 
September    1722,    declared    for    epifcopacyf.      The    conse- 

*  The  tradition  is,  that  Mrs.  Blakilee,  the  great  grand  mother  of  the 
prefent  Captain  Blakilee,  would  take  her  child  in  her  arms,  on  fabbath 
day  morning,  travel  to  New  Haven  and  hear  Mr.  Pierpont  preach,  and 
return  again  after  meeting.  The  fame  is  reported  concerning  Mrs. 
Thorpe,  the  wife  of  Nathaniel  Thorpe.  The  people  who  fettled  this 
town  were  brought  up  in  the  ftrict  puritanic  religion  of  thofe  excellent 
men,  Mr.  Davenport  and  Mr.  Pierpont,  and  were,  numbers  of  them, 
truly  of  the  excellent  in  the  earth. 

f  One  or  two  families  embraced  epifcopacy  with  Mr.  Wetmore, 
which  began  the  church  in  this  town.  In  1751,  when  Mr.  Ichabod  Camp 
went  for  orders  for  Wallitrgford  and  Middletown,  there  were  two  fub- 
fcribers  for  him  at  North  Haven.  He  came  back  and  officiated  at  Wal- 
lingford,  Middletown  and  North  Haven,  until  1760,  when  he  removed  to 


[      *9°     ] 

quence  was,  a  difmiflion,  foon  after,  from  his  pafloral  rela- 
tion. He  went  to  England  and  took  orders,  in  1723.  He 
was  rector  of  the  church  at  Rye,  where  he  finifhed  his 
courfe,  May  14,  1760.  He  was  educated  at  the  collegiate 
fchool  at  Saybrook,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  Bach- 
elor of  Arts,  in  September,  17 14. 

After  a  vacancy  of  a  little  more  than  two  years,  the 
Rev.  Ifaac  Stiles  fucceeded  him  in  the  pafloral  office.  He 
was  ordained  on  the  nth  of  November,  1724.  He  was 
graduated  at  Yale  college,  1722,  and  died  May  14, 1760,  on  the 
fame  day,  and  nearly  at  the  same  hour,  in  which  his  pre- 
deceffor,  Mr.  Wetmore,  died.  He  was  well  verfed  in  the 
fcriptures,  had  a  natural  gift  of  elocution,  and  was  a  zeal- 
ous, engaging  preacher. 

The  bereaved  congregation,  after  they  had  heard  fev- 
eral  gentlemen,  by  the  advice  of  the  affociation,  made 
application  to  me.  Upon  their  invitation,  I  paid  them  a 
vilit,  and  preached  to  them,  the  fir  ft  time,  on  Lord's  day, 
Auguft  31,  1760.  After  preaching  with  them  a  little  more 
than  two  months,  the  church  and  fociety,  with  great 
unanimity,  gave  me  a  call  to  fettle  with  them,  in  the 
work  of  the  miniftry.  It  appeared  my  duty  to  accept 
their  invitation,  and  I  was  ordained  to  the  pafloral  office, 
by  the  confociation  of  the  paflors  and  churches  of  the 
whole  county,  December  24,  1760.  Through  help  obtained 
from  God,  I  continue  to  this  time.  I  am  now  just  entering 
on  the  forty-firft  year  of  my  miniftry.  My  locks  have 
whitened  and  my  eyes  grown  dim  in  your  fervice;  but  dur 
ing  this  long  period,  through  the  wonderful  patience  and 
goodnefs  of  the  Great  Father  of  mercies,  1  have  never 
been  unable  to  perform  the  public  worfhip,  on  both  parts 
of  the  day,  but  in  one  single  inftance.  I  have  been  able 
to  meet  you  at  every  lecture,  at  every  funeral,  and  upon  all 
occafions  in  which  my  minifterial  fervice  has  been  required. 
Within  a  little  lefs  than  a  century  you  have  had  three 
minifters,  two  of  whom  have  ferved  you  about  fevent)-  fix 
years. 

Thf.re  have  been  in  the  church,  ten  deacons,  David 
Yale  and  Samuel  Ives,  chofen  17 18.  Deacon  Ives  died 
November  25,  1726.     Samuel  Todd   fucceeded  him,  chosen 

Virginia.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Punderfon  vifited  them  frequently,  the  latter 
part  of  the  fame  time,  and  for  a  year  or  two  afterwards.  In  1760  they 
built  them  a  fmall  houfe  40  by  30.  From  the  year  1762,  until  about  the 
year  1783,  they  were  under  the  pafloral  care  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Andrews, 
of  Wallingford.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Hart  preached  to  them  for  feveral  years 
fince,  but  they  are  now  a  plurality  under  the  charge  of  the  Rev.  Reuben 
Ives,  of  Chefhire,  and  have  preaching  once  in  three  fabbaths. 


I       '9i       I 

about  1727.  Mofes  Blakllee,  about  1728,  fueceeded  Deacon 
Yale*.  Deacon  Blakllee  removed  to  Northbury,  now  Ply- 
mouth, 1739,  and  Deacon  Thomas  Cooper  fueceeded  him, 
chofen  1740.  Upon  the  deceafe  of  Deacon  Todd,  Ifaiah 
Tuttle  was  chofen  Deacon,  about  the  year  174.it.  The 
Deacons,  by  reafon  of  their  advanced  age,  defiring  afiift- 
ance,  Jeffe  Todd  was  chosen  Deacon,  December  24,  1772, 
and  James  Humafton,  November  24,  1773.  Upon  the 
refignation  of  Deacon  Humafton,  Solomon  Tuttle  was 
chosen,  November  2,  1780.  Deacon  Titus  Todd  was  chofen 
March  1,  1787,  to  fupply  the  vacancy  made  by  the  removal 
of  his  brother,  Jeffe  Todd,  to  Springfield,  in  Maffachufetts. 

The  fir  ft  military  officers  chosen  and  commifiioned  in 
North  Haven,  were  Capt.  Jofeph  Ives,  Lieut.  John  Granis, 
and  Enfign  Samuel  Ives.  They  received  their  commiflions 
at  the  feflion  of  the  general  affembly,  October,  1718. 

Your  anceftors  were  few  in  number,  but  you  are  now 
increafed  to  about  fourteen  hundred  fouls.  They  were 
clothed  and  fed  coarfely,  and  fared  hardly;  but  you  are 
generally  dreffed  with  elegance,  and  have  not  only  the 
conveniences,  but  many  of  the  delicacies  of  life.  They 
were  compaffed  with  a  wildernefs,  with  wild  beafls  and 
favage  menj.  But  you  dwell  amidfl  cultivated  and  pleaf- 
ant  fields,  orchards  and  gardens,  and  have  nothing  to  fear 
from  either.    In  their  times,  the  ways  were  unoccupied.    A 

D 


*  Deacon  Yale  died  1730;  and  fome  years  before  his  death  refigned 
his  office. 


f  Deacon  Ifaiah  Tuttle  died  September  n,  1776,  aged  72.  Deacon 
Thomas  Cooper  died  March  11,  17S4,  aged  So. 

X  The  Indians  were  fometimes  very  numerous  in  this  place,  and 
gave  much  alarm  to  the  inhabitants,  efpecially  to  the  women  and  chil- 
dren. When  the  towns  of  New  Haven  and  Guilford  fettled,  the  Indians 
from  both  towns  collected,  principally  to  Branford  and  Eaft  Haven.  At 
Eaft  Haven  was  the  grand  Indian  burying  place,  to  which  the  Indians, 
at  times,  had  a  kind  of  general  refort.  The  Indians  at  Mattabefeck, 
were  connected  with  the  Indians  in  this  part  of  the  State,  and  the  extent 
of  the  river  into  the  Southern  part  of  Farmington,  and  the  fine  fifhing 
and  fowling  upon  it,  formed  a  connexion  with  the  Farmington  Indians. 
The  combination  of  thefe  circumftances,  fometimes  filled  the  parifh  with 
Indians.  At  particular  times  they  feemed  to  fwarm  upon  the  river,  and 
the  groves  and  fwamps  appeared  alive  with  them.  Once  after  the  fettle- 
ment  commenced  they  made  a  grand  pawaw,  on  the  road  between  the 
corner  of  the  Market  place,  and  Mr.  John  Humafton's;  people  were  in 
great  fear  that  their  fields  of  corn  would  be  ruined  by  them;  but  by  the 
influence  of  the  chief  fachem,  they  were  reftrained  from  doing  any 
damage 


[       I92        ] 

folitary  path  through  a  dreary  fwamp  or  wood,  led  to  their 
humble  cottages.  But  your  roads  are  broad  and  fmooth. 
and  your  houfes  are  large  and  elegant.  They  had  every 
thing  to  do,  but  their  means  were  fmall.  You  have  houfes 
builded,  wells  digged,  gardens  planted,  orchards  and  trees 
of  various  fruit,  prepared  to  your  hands.  They  were  under 
great  difadvantages  for  fchooling  their  children,  not  only 
on  account  of  their  low  circum fiances,  but  of  their  diftance 
from  each  other,  and  of  the  danger  of  children's  travel- 
ling fo  far  through  groves  and  swamps;  but  you  have 
diftinguifhing  advantages  to  get  wifdom  yourfelves,  and  to 
fchool  your  children.  Your  advantages,  in  these  refpects, 
are  much  greater  now,  than  they  were  at  the  time  of  my 
fettlement  with  you.  There  was  then  but  one  fchool  houfe 
within  the  limits  of  the  parifh;  Now  you  have  eight  fchool 
diftricls,  and  the  fame  number  of  fchool  houfes,  generally 
commodious  and  well  built.  Your  progrefs  in  knowledge, 
civilization,  agriculture,  and  manufactures,  has  been  very 
conliderable.  You  have  experienced  no  fuch  diftrefling, 
feafons  of  general  ficknefs  and  mortality,  as  the  inhabit- 
ants had  been  vilited  with  in  former  years.  Your  popula 
tion  has  been  very  great,  though  on  the  account  of  the 
numerous  emigrations,  and  the  fetting  off  of  a  large  number 
of  families  to  the  parifh  of  Mount  Carmel,  you  are  not, 
perhaps,  more  numerous  than  you  were  in  1759*.  In  Octo- 
ber, 1786,  you  were  made  a  diftin£t  town,  and  veiled  with 
all  the  immunities  of  fuch  a  free  corporation.  You  have  a 
large  and  convenient  house  for  the  public  worship^,  an 
elegant  lleeple,  a  large  and  excellent  bell.  You  enjoy 
peace  among  yourfelves,  and  the  bleflings  of  uncommon 
health  pervade  your  habitations.  Are  not  the  lines  fallen 
to  us  in  pleafant  places  ?  Have  we  not  a  goodly  heritage  ? 
What  more  is  neceffary  to  complete  our  happinefs,  than 
thankful  and  obedient  hearts,  rendering  unto  the  Lord 
according  to  his  benefits? 

*  Some  time  before  my  ordination,  Mount  Carmel  was  made  a  dif- 
tincl parifh,  and  between  twenty  and  thirty  families  were  taken  off  from 
this  fociety;  but  they  worfhipped  with  us  until  about  the  clofe  of  the 
year  1760.  The  church  in  Mount  Carmel,  was  embodied  January  26, 
1764,  at  which  time  about  18  members  of  the  church  in  North  Haven,  by 
mutual  confent,  were  embodied  with  that  church.  They  communed 
with  this  church  until  that  time,  though  they  had  been  annexed  to 
another  fociety. 

About  150  families  have  emigrated  from  this  town  within  the  40 
years  of  my  miniftry,  befides  a  great  number  of  young  people;  but  few 
have  moved  into  it.  Almoft  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  are  derived 
from  the  firft  planters. 

%  It  is  60  feet  by  45  and  $-.  It  was  erected  1739,  and  finifhed  in 
Auguft  1 74 1. 


L      '93      I 

I  have  now  only  one  great  and  folemn  event  more,  of 
the  lail  century  and  year,  to  lay  before  yon;  that  is  the 
progrefs  of  death.  A  view  of  this  is  neceflary,  that  we 
may  clofe  the  lall,  and  begin  the  new  year  with  proper 
views  and  exercifes,  and  that  we  may  form  jull  concep- 
tions with  refpeet  to  the  century  before  us. 

Every  year  is  productive  of  events,  folemn,  vaft  and 
wonderful.  A  centuiy  increafeth  them  an  hundred  fold. 
From  the  moll  accurate  bills  of  mortality,  it  appears,  that 
half  the  human  race,  even  in  this  healthful  climate,  die 
under  twenty  years  of  age:  And  it  is  computed,  that, 
taking  the  world  at  large,  one  half  die  under  feventeen. 
Once  in  about  twenty-feven  years,  it  is  fuppofed,  that  a 
number  dies  equal  to  the  whole  number  of  inhabitants 
upon  the  globe.  Some  ellimate  this  number  at  a  thoufand 
millions  — and  that  there  die  annually,  about  thirty-feven 
millions — feven  hundred  and  twelve  thoufand  every  week 
— one  hundred  and  one  thoufand  feven  hundred  and  fifty 
daily — four  thoufand  two  hundred  and  thirty-nine  every 
hour — and  about  feventy  every  minute.  Nine  hundred  and 
fifty  thoufand  millions  is  the  loweil  computation  of  the 
inhabitants  of  the  earth.  According  to  this  ellimate, 
thirty  five  millions  one  hundred  and  eighty-five  thoufands 
one  hundred  and  eighty-five  die  every  year — fix  hundred 
feventy-fix  thousand  fix  hundred  and  thirty-eight  each 
week — every  day,  ninety-fix  thoufand  fix  hundred  and 
lixty-two — every  hour,  four  thoufands  and  twenty-feven — 
and  fixty-feven  each  palling  minute.  Wonderful,  tremen- 
dous mortality  !  !  !  What  an  aflonifhing  current  of  fouls 
is  rapidly  borne  on  the  tide  of  time,  inceffantly  (hooting 
into  the  ocean  of  eternity,  and  appearing  before  God,  in 
judgment! 

If  this  reprefentation  be  jull,  the  earth  changes  the 
whole  number  of  its  inhabitants,  at  leail,  three  times  and 
an  half  each  century,  Three  thoufand  three  hundred  and 
twenty-five  millions  have  exchanged  worlds  the  laft  cen- 
tury. During  this  period,  four  kings  and  one  queen  have 
reigned  on  the  throne  of  Great  Britain.  William  and 
Mary,  Queen  Anne,  George  the  firll  and  fecond,  with  all 
their  courtiers,  admirals,  generals,  and  mighty  men,  reft 
together  in  the  dull.  The  Louis's,  their  courts  and  mighty 
men  are  no  more.  Royalty  has  been  abolished,  conftitu- 
tions  and  tyrants,  in  quick  fucceiiion,  have  followed  each 
other,  and  vanilhed  away.  Kingdoms  and  republics  have 
been  fhaken  and  demolilhed,  the  face  of  Europe,  and  of  the 
whole  world  hath  been  chano-ed. 


■&x 


If  we  come  nearer  home,  and   review   America,  New 
England,  Connecticut,  and  our  refpective  towns,  will  not 


13 


[      *94      ] 

the  retrofpect  be  folemn,  inftructive  and  affecting?  All 
the  venerable  fathers,  who,  at  the  commencement  of  the 
laft  hundred  years,  conducted  the  affairs  of  church  and 
Rate,  with  their  children,  and  moll  of  their  grand  children, 
are  gone  down  to  the  fides  of  the  pit.  Their  wifdom, 
beauty,  influence,  and  lives,  have  all  been  loll  in  the  rav- 
ages of  time.  In  this  State,  which  was  fo  fmall  at  that 
period,  there  have  died  ten  governors,  with  their  councils 
and  officers,  nine  prefidents  or  chief  infttructors  of  college. 
The  fellows  who  were  their  contemporaries,  and  the  tutors 
who  affifted  them,  generally  are  gone  down  to  the  congre- 
gation of  the  dead.  About  three  hundred  miniflers,  who 
fhone  as  lights  in  this  part  of  the  firmament  of  the  church, 
have  been  extinguifhed,  and  new  liars  and  conftellations 
have  arifen,  to  illuminate  her  children,  and  guide  them  in 
their  fucccflive  generations,  to  virtue  and  glory.  The  nu- 
merous hearers,  who  once  affembled  with  thofe  preachers 
of  righteoufnefs,  and  hung  upon  their  lips,  have  clofed 
their  eyes  with  them  in  death,  and  fpread  their  graves 
around  them.  The  paftors  and  the  flocks  have  gone  to 
judgment,  and  are  reaping  in  different  worlds,  accord- 
ing to  what  they  had  fown.  Your  former  paftors,  their 
churches  and  congregations  red  together  in  the  places  of 
burial. 


Duping  the  forty  years  of  my  miniftry,  there  have 
died  out  of  the  town  570  perfons;  484  from  among  the  peo- 
ple of  my  paftoral  charge;  about  75  out  of  the  epifcopalian 
fociety*,  and  ten  or  twelve  from  among  the  feparates  and 
baptifts.  I  fuppofe,  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  whole  town, 
upon  an  average,  during  the  term  of  forty  years,  have  been 
about  1,300,  a  little  more  than  a  thoufand  have  been  under 
my  paftoral  care.     The  deaths  and  ages,  among  thefe,  have 


*  This  confifts  of  4+  families.  The  firft  man  in  the  fociety  of  this  pro- 
fefiion,  was  Mr.  Ebenezer  Blakflee  He  went  off  from  the  church  in 
North  Haven  with  Mr.  Wetmore.  The  church  increafed  confiderably,  in 
nearly  40  years,  by  the  population  of  his  own  family;  fome  families  of 
the  fame  perfuafion  moved  into  the  parifh,  and  fome  others  joining  them, 
from  among  the  people  in  the  fociety,  towards  the  latter  part  of  Mr. 
Stiles's  miniftry,  they,  on  the  24th  of  April,  1759  had  attained  to  fuch 
numbers,  that  they,  in  a  folemn  manner,  formed  into  church  ftate,  and 
for  the  firft  time  chofe  wardens.  At  the  commencement  of  the  laft  cen- 
tury there  were  no  fectaries  in  Connecticut,  and  there  was  but  one  epif- 
copalian church  in  New  England,  which  was  in  Bofton.  In  1707,  a  small 
epifcopalian  church  was  eftabliflied  at  Stratford.  At  the  fame  time,  when 
Mr.  Wetmore  declared  for  epifcopacv,  Mr.  Cutler,  the  rector  of  College, 
and  Mr.  Johnfton,  minifter  at  Weft  Haven,  declared.  They  went  to  Eng- 
land and  took  orders,  and  rector  Cutler  was  fixed  at  Bofton,  and  Mr.  John- 
fon  at  Stratford.  Thefe  gentlemen,  with  one  or  two  more,  who  declared 
for  epifcopacy,  at,  or  about  the  fame  time,  were  very  much  the  fathers  of 
the  epifcopal  church  in  New  England. 


L     '95     J 

been  accurately  kept.  The  deaths,  upon  an  average,  have 
been  about  twelve  and  one-tenth  annually,  a  little  more  than 
one  to  an  hundred.  Of  the  484,  79  have  lived  to  70  years  of 
age  and  upwards.  Thirty-feven  lived  to  between  70  and 
80;  thirty-five  to  between  80  and  90;  and  feven  to  90,  and 
between  90  and  100  years  of  age.  About  16  out  of  an  hun- 
dred have  lived  to  70  years  and  upwards;  eight  out  of  an 
hundred  to  more  than  80;  and  feven  of  the  484  have  lived 
to  be  90;  and  between  90  and  an  hundred  years  of  age.  Of 
the  feven  lafl  mentioned,  one  was  91,  one  92,  one  93,  one  95, 
and  the  oldell  99  and  8  months.  This  is  the  greater! 
degree  of  health  and  longevity,  which,  in  modern  times,  I 
have  known  for  to  long  a  period.  Neverthelefs,  how  has 
the  face  of  this  affembly  been  changed  ?  The  fathers,  where 
are  the}*?  And  how  are  the  heads  of  their  children 
whitening  with  years  !  One  generation  passeth  away,  and  another 
generation  cometh. 


<•> 


What  profitable  reflections  (hall  we  now  make,  on  the 
view  we  have  taken  of  our  fubjeef,  and  of  the  year  and 
century  pail  ?  With  what  feelings  and  profpects  fhould  we 
begin  the  new  year,  and  the  nineteenth  century  ?  The 
doctrine  of  divine  providence,  that  the  Lord  governs  nni- 
verfally,  uncontrolably,  perfectly,  and  for  ever,  exhibits 
him  as  a  proper  and  glorious  object  of  our  entire  truft,  of 
our  prayers  and  praifes.  What  encouragement  is  there  to 
truft  in,  and  pray  to  him,  who  governs  all  worlds,  creatures 
and  events,  and  performeth  all  things  for  his  people? — 
What  fupport  and  comfort  mull  it  give  to  Zion  and  to  all 
who  fear  the  Lord,  when  the  earth  is  removed,  and  the 
mountains  carried  into  the  midil  of  the  fea,  when  the 
waters  of  it  roar,  and  the  mountains  tremble  at  the  fwell- 
ing  of  it,  that  he  fits  king  for  ever,  and  prefides  in  every 
ftorm  ?  How  calming  and  consolatory  to  hear  him  ipeak- 
ing,  in  the  dark  day,  and  amidll  the  raging  tempell,  as  he 
did  to  the  affrighted  difciples  upon  the  fea  of  Galilee,  //  is 
f,  be  not  afraid. 

This,  at  the  fame  time,  fhould  beget  in  us  entire  ac- 
quiefcence  and  fubmiflion,  with  refpect  to  all  prefent  and 
future  circumftances,  relating  to  ourfelves,  the  church  of 
God,  and  all  creatures  and  things.  In  view  of  the  univer- 
fal  and  perfect  government  of  the  Most  High;  this  fhould 
be  the  language  of  our  hearts,  //  is  the  Lord,  let  him  do  what 
seemeth  him  good. 

The  univerfal  dominion  of  God,  teacheth  us  to  acknowl- 
edge him  in  all  the  judgments  and  fearful  defolations 
which  have  been,  or  are  made  in  the  earth,  and  in  all  the 
riches  of  goodnefs  and  mercy  with  which  it  is  filled.     It 


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leads  us  to  communion  with  him  in  all  his  providences,  as 
well  as  ordinances:  To  know  him  by  the  judgments  which 
he  executeth,  and  to  learn  righteoufnefs,  while  they  are  in 
the  earth:  To  fee  him  in  all  his  goodnefs,  and  to  be  led  by 
it  to  repentance  and  thankfgiving. 

While  we  behold  his  mighty  works,  and  conilder  the 
operation  of  his  hands,  how  fhould  we  adore  his  greatnefs, 
wifdom  and  power,  and  learn  to  fear  him  for  ever?  While 
we  behold  how  he  bringeth  the  princes  to  nothing,  and 
maketh  the  judges  of  the  earth  as  vanity;  how  he  maketh 
cities  a  ruinous  heap,  and  plucketh  up  and  planteth  the 
nations  at  his  pleafure;  how  fhould  we  tremble  before 
him,  and  fly  to  his  mercy  in  Christ  Jesus? 

While  we  fee  him,  in  his  inflexible  juflice  and  veracity, 
in  all  places  and  generations,  executing  that  awful  fen- 
tence,  Dust  thou  art,  and  unto  dust  shall  thou  return, 
how  fhould  we  learn,  in  this  tremendous  teftimony  which 
he  bears  againfl  fin,  how  his  foul  abhors  it?  How  inex- 
prefiibly  fhould  we,  and  all  men  loathe  and  fear  it  ?  How 
mould  God's  inflexibility  in  the  execution  of  this  fentence, 
eftablifh  us,  in  the  perfuafion,  that  he  will  execute  all  his 
threatenings;  and,  that  though  hand  join  in  hand,  the 
wicked  fliall  not  be  unpunifhed. 

As  we  fee  him  in  paft  ages,  and  in  the  prefent  age,  exe- 
cuting his  threatenings,  and  fulfilling  the  promifes  and 
predictions  of  his  word,  how  fhould  it  confirm  out  faith  in 
the  fcriptures,  our  confidence  in  him,  and  affurance  that  he 
will  accomplish  all  the  good  which  he  hath  fpoken  concern- 
ing Zion. 

How  does  our  fubject  teach  us  to  give  all  glory  to  God, 
for  the  iignal  deliverance  which  he  hath  granted  to  our 
fathers,  and  to  us  their  pofterity  ?  For  his  complicated 
and  mighty  works  in  giving  us  this  great  and  good  land, 
in  protecting  his  church  here,  in  every  emergency,  and  in 
the  admirable  increafe  of  it,  the  century  paft  ?  With  what 
venerable  and  exalted  ideas,  fliculd  we  adore  his  provi- 
dence in  the  American  revolution,  in  the  eflablifhment  of 
our  independence,  and  in  our  prefent  peace,  diftinguifhed 
priviledges  and  growing  profperity  ?  How  gracious  has  he 
been  to  us,  that  while  war  hath  hung  out  its  bloody  flag, 
and  raged  beyond  all  former  example,  in  aim  oft  ever}'  part 
of  the  world,  we  have  enjoyed  peace  ?  While  the  cities, 
kingdoms,  wealth,  commerce  and  refources  of  other  coun- 
tries, are  in  a  manner  annihilated,  their  inhabitants  llain, 
by  millions,  and  their  habitations  and  pleafant  tracts  made 


[      '97     1 

defolate,  we  have  not  only  rebuilt  the  towns  and  cities,  re- 
peopled  and  fertilized  the  tracts  which  war  had  ruined  and 
depopulated,  but  we  have  extended  our  fettlements,  in- 
creafed  our  numbers,  navigation,  commerce,  fifheries, 
wealth  and  refources  beyond  all  parallel.  The  tracts  where 
war  raged,  where  the  clafhing  and  roar  of  arms,  the  thunder 
of  cannon  and  noife  of  battle  fhook  all  the  adjacent  country, 
where  the  wounded  groaned,  and  the  mighty  fell,  are  now 
covered  with  pleafant  villages, walks,  and  gardens,  and  fields 
wave  with  plenteous  harvefts.  There  freemen  lie  down  in 
quiet,  and  mothers  hufh  their  numerous  babes  to  reft  in 
fafety.  Extenfive  regions,  which  for  ages  paft  had  been  a 
dreary  wildernefs,  filled  with  the  hideous  howlings  of  fav- 
age  beafts  and  men,  are  now  peopled  with  chriftians,  and 
prayers  and  praifes  are  conftantly  addreffed  to  the  throne 
of  heaven.  Are  thefe  my  brethren,  the  works  of  the 
Lord,  and  ihall  not  all  America  awake  to  praife  him  ?  Can 
we  contemplate,  that  according  to  the  common  rate  of  mor- 
tality, three  or  four  minifters,  and  three  or  four  thoufands 
of  people,  upon  the  loweft  computation,  die  annually  in 
this  State*,  and  yet,  that  not  one  governor  nor  magiftrate, 


*  Life,  in  Connecticut,  and  New  England  in  general,  is  one  third,  at 
leaft,  nearly  one  half  longer  and  better  than  it  is  in  the  world  in  general. 
According  to  the  common  eftimate,  one  half  of  mankind  die  under  17 
years  of  age,  and  in  the  populous  cities  and  fome  parts  of  the  world  under 
11  years  of  age;  but  in  the  bill  of  mortality  for  this  town,  but  two  more 
than  half  have  died  under  20.  In  every  thoufand  people  under  20,  there- 
fore, 3000  years  of  life  are  gained.  Among  125  ooo,  375,000  years  are 
gained.  Were  all  the  people  through  this  State  as  healthy  as  the  people 
in  North  Haven  have  been  for  forty  years  paft,  the  bill  of  mortality  for 
the  whole  State  would  be  but  about  3000.  But  the  bills  of  mortality  in 
the  more  populous  towns  and  cities  are  greater;  fo  that  upon  the  belt 
calculation  which  can  be  made,  the  annual  bill,  upon  an  average,  is  be- 
tween four  and  five  thoufands.  This  is  but  about  one  half  of  the  num- 
ber which  die  through  the  world,  in  general,  according  to  the  common 
eftimate.  This  is  not  owing  wholly  to  the  healthinefs  of  the  climate,  but 
to  the  manners  and  comfortable  living  of  the  people.  In  Great  Britain 
and  in  other  parts  of  the  world,  where  the  climates  are  as  healthy  as  in 
New  England,  the  bills  of  mortality  are  much  greater.  The  luxury  of 
the  great  and  opulent,  fhortens  their  lives,  and  renders  their  children 
lefs  healthful  and  vigorous.  The  taking  them  off  from  the  breafts  of  the 
mother,  and  putting  them  unnaturally  to  others,  to  fuckle  and  nurfe,  is. 
doubtlefs,  a  further  injury  to  life.  The  great  poverty,  low  living,  harcl- 
fhips,  and  vices  of  the  people  of  the  lower  claffes  in  life,  fliorten  their 
days.  But  in  New  England,  none  are  fo  poor,  or  neceffarily  fubject  to 
fuch  hardfhips  as  to  fliorten  their  days.  Their  general  temperance, 
regular  and  fober  manner  of  living,  their  tender  care  and  nurling  of  their 
children,  are,  under  God,  the  great  means  of  their  extraordinary  popu- 
lation, health,  and  longevity.  The  fear  of  the  Lord  prolongeth  days. 
Temperance,  chaftity,  a  contented  and  quiet  mind,  and  peaceful  and 
righteous  conduct,  a  chearful  confidence  in  God,  and  the  reviving  hope 
of  his  everlafting  mercy,  all  unite  their  influence  to  fecure  and  promote 
the  natural  life  and  happinefs  of  man.  Were  there  no  world  but  this, 
the  human  race,  would,  no  doubt,  be  moft  happy,  in  the  belief  and  prac- 
tice of  all  things  which  God  hath  revealed  or  commanded. 


L    198    1 

not  one  member  of  congrefs,  nor  judge  of  our  courts,  has 
died  the  year  pah,  and  but  one  miniiler  of  the  gofpelf,  and 
not  be  deeply  affected  with  the  divine  patience  and  good- 
nefs?  Are  we  alive  amidft  all  the  ravages  of  time  and 
death,  to  celebrate  the  commencement  of  a  New  Year  and 
Century;  and  is  the  voice  of  health  and  peace  heard  in 
our  habitations,  and  (hall  we  not  ferve  the  Lord  with  glad- 
nefs?  Shall  we  not  enter  into  his  gates  with  thankfgiving, 
and  into  his  courts  with  praife  ?  Should  not  every  heart 
expand  with  gratitude,  and  every  tongue  ling  hallelujah? 
Shall  we  not,  like  the  pfalmift,  remember  God's  wonders  of  old, 
meditate  of  all  his  works,  and  talk  of  his  doings  ?  Shall  not  this 
be  the  univerfal  ftudy,  What  skull  J render  unto  the  Lord  for 
all  his  benefits  ? 

While  we  weep  over  the  graves  of  our  anceftors,  and 
contemplate  the  revolutions  of  time  and  ravages  of  death, 
fhall  we  not  ferioully  think  of  our  own  diffolution  ?  How 
foon  time  may  be  with  us  no  more?  Shall  we  not  learn 
how  frail  we  are  ?  How  precious  is  every  moment  of  time  ? 
And  how  necelTary  to  prepare  for  death  without  delay  ?  Do 
we  fee  kings,  counfellors  and  judges  of  the  earth,  the  wife, 
the  ftrongfthe  young  and  beautiful  covered  with  duft  and 
worms?  Do  we'  know  that  we  fhall  foon  be  like  them,  and 
fhall  we  not  be  clothed  with  humility? 

Now  we  have  clofed  another  year  and  century,  with 
what  ferioufnefs  fhould  we  reflect,  that  fuch  an  important 
portion  of  time,  all  its  fabbaths  and  opportunities  are  part 
never  to  be  recalled  ?  That  time  has  borne  us  on  fo  much 
nearer  to  death,  judgment,  and  our  final  doom  ?  How 
ferioully  fhould  every  one  enquire,  am  I  prepared  for  thefe 
great  events  ?  Do  my  preparations  bear  any  proportion  to 
the  rapid  advances  I  am  making  towards  them  ?  What  if 
this  year  fhould  be  my  laft  ?  What  would  be  my  condition  ? 
What  my  company?  Where  fhould  I  make  my  everlaftmg 
abode  ? 

We  are  now  advanced  to  a  new  year  and  century.  The 
events  of  it  will  be  vail  and  momentous.  Old  kingdoms 
and  hates  will  link,  and  new  ones  rife.  Millions  will  die, 
and  millions  be  born,  and  the  whole  earth  be  peopled  with 
new  inhabitants.  States  which  are  now  fmall,  may,  by  the 
clofe  of  the  prefent  century,  out-number  the  greatefl  king- 
doms in  Europe.  The  inhabitants  of  the  United  States,  at 
their  ufual  rate  of  population,  will  in  an  hundred  years, 
amount  to  ninety-fix  millions^.     In  the  fame  period,  more 

f  The  Rev.  Nathaniel  Taylor,  of  New  Milford,  who  died  December 
9,  1800,  in  the  79th  year  of  his  age. 

\  On   fuppofition   that   the   inhabitants   of  the    United   States   now 


[      199      I 

than  twice  the  number  of  mankind  now  upon  the  face  of 
the  earth  will  be  ("wept  away  by  the  hand  of  death.  Sol- 
emn thought!  All  the  intelligence,  literature,  wifdom.life 
and  beauty,  now  upon  earth  will  be  no  more!  !  !  If  Xerxes, 
when  he  took  a  view  of  his  army  of  feventeen  hundred 
thoufand  men,  from  a  lofty  eminence,  wept  at  the  reflection, 
that  in  one  age  they  would  all  be  dead;  how  fliould  our 
hearts  melt  and  our  eyes  run  down  with  tears  at  the  prof- 
pect  before  us  ?  In  this  we  fee  our  own  funerals,  the  deaths 
of  our  children,  and  of  all  our  friends. 

From  pall  and  prefent  appearances,  and  from  a  general 
view  of  the  prophcies,  the  prefent  century  will  be  one  of 
the  moll  eventful  and  interefting  periods,  in  which  God,  in 
rapid  fucceflion,  will  be  carrying  into  execution  his  judg- 
ments againil  his  enemies,  and  effecting  the  great  events 
preparatory  to  the  commencement  of  a  new,  more  pure, 
peaceful  and  glorious  Hate  of  the  church. 

With  refpect  to  ourselves,  we  know  that  we  fhall  never 
fee  another  century,  we  may  not  fee  another  year.  We  know 
not  what  a  day,  much  lefs  what  a  year  may  bring  forth. 
From  the  profpect  which  has  been  exhibited,  you  perceive 
that  thoufands  will  die  in  this  State,  before  another  year, 
and  numbers  among  ourfelves.  Some  of  us — who,  and  how 
man)7,  God  only  knows,  mull  exchange  worlds  and  go  to 
judgment.  With  refpect  to  fuch  as  fhall  furvive,  they  may 
be  called  to  lay  their  dearell  enjoyments  in  the  grave,  or 
wounds,  licknefs,  or  misfortunes,  wearifome  nights,  and 
days,  and  months  of  vanity  may  be  appointed  unto  them. 
How  highly,  therefore,  does  it  concern  us  all  to  begin  the 
year  with  God;  with  an  immediate  preparation  for  the 
events  of  it,  whatever  they  may  be  ?  With  what  an  entire 
fubmiflion  to  the  divine  will,  with  refpect  to  all  the  occur- 
rences of  the  year,  and  of  time  itfelf,  fliould  we  enter 
upon  fuch  a  period  ?  While  we  behold  the  rage  of  the 
wicked,  the  tumult  and  confufion  of  the  nations,  how  the 
floods  have  lifted  up  themfelves,  their  voice  and  their 
waves,  how  fliould  we  rejoice,  that  the  Lord  on  high,  is  might- 
ier than  the  noise  of  many  waters;  yea,  than  the  mighty  waves  of  the 
sea  ?      That  he  reigneth  and  will  reign  for  ever  ?      That  alt  the  vast 

E 


amount  to  fix  millions,  and  that  they  double  once  in  25  years,  they  will, 
in  1S25,  be  12  millions;  in  1S50.  24  millions;  in  1S75,  4S  millions;  and,  at 
the  clofe  of  the  prefent  century,  96  millions. 


200 


concerns  of  the  universe  are  in  his  hands,  and  that  he  will  govern 

them  for  his  own  glory,  and  the  good  of  his  holy  kingdom  ? 

As  our  conduct  may  have  great  influence  on  the  count- 
lefs  millions  of  thoie  who  fhall  be  born,  live  and  die  after 
us,  and  on  the  prefent  and  future  happinefs  of  our  country, 
how  pioufly,  righteoufly,  and  circumspectly  fhould  we  live  ? 
What  great  and  united  exertions  fhould  be  made  for  the 
instruction,  pious  and  good  education  of  young  people,  and 
to  make  the  generations  to  come,  wife,  ufeful  and  good  ? 
With  what  pains,  prayerfulnefs  and  perfeverance  fhould  all 
chriftians  exert  themfelves  to  diffufe  chriftian  knowledge, 
and,  as  far  as  pofiible,  to  fpread  the  gofpel  to  the  ends  of 
the  earth  ?  The  honor  of  God,  his  love  to  men,  the  falva- 
tions  he  hath  granted  unto  us  and  our  fathers,  the  diftin- 
guifhing  privileges,  and  countlefs  bleftings  we  now  enjoy, 
love  to  God,  to  our  country,  and  to  fuch  an  innumerable 
multitude  of  human  beings,  combine  all  their  energies,  and 
prefs  us  to  thofe  duties. 

We  are  now,  probably,  under  the  pouring  out  of  the  laft 
part  of  the  iixth  vial.  The  fpirit  of  devils  is,  doubtlefs, 
gone  forth,  and  is  ftill  going  forth  unto  the  kings  of  the 
earth,  and  to  the  whole  world,  to  gather  them  unto  the  bat- 
tle of  the  great  day  of  God  Almighty.  The  battle  is  prob- 
ably began,  and  will  ftill  be  fought  with  greater  fury  and 
wider  deftruction.  The  ten  kings  will  deftroy  the  Romifh 
anti-chrifl,  burn  her  with  fire,  and  then,  according  to  the 
prophecies,  go  into  perdition  themfelves.  The  Turkifh  em- 
pire the  other  great  oppofer  of  God,  and  perfecutor  of  the 
faints,  will  fall  with  the  harlot  of  Babylon.  The  judgments 
of  God  in  the  century  pad,  and  at  prefent,  are  remarkably 
upon  it,  and  it  is  not  lets  rapidly  declining  than  the  papal 
intereft.  Conftantinople  has  been  eighteen  times  on  fire,  the 
laft  century,  in  which,  more  than  120,000  thoufand  houfes, 
beiides  other  buildings,  were  burnt,  with  8000  inhabitants. 
In  1750,  it  was  vifited  with  the  plague,  in  which  it  loll  7000 
people.  The  next  year  it  was  almoft  deftroyed  by  an  earth- 
quake, in  which  3000  more  perifhed.  Other  principal  cities 
and  extenfive  countries  have  been  overthrown,  and  in  a 
manner  ruined,  by  earthquakes*.     The  plague   at   feveral 

*  Auguft  22,  1752,  the  city  of  Adrianople,  the  fecond  in  opulence  and 
population,  in  the  empire,  was.  the  greateit  part  of  it,  deftroyed  by  an 
earthquake.  September  2.  1754,  Grand  Cairo  had  two  thirds  of  its  build- 
ings fhaken  down,  and  40000  people  fwallowed  up.  In  1755,  Fez,  in 
Morocco,  was  half  deftroyed  by  an  earthquake,  and  12  000  Arabs  were 
buried  in  its  ruins.  A  few  years  fince  that  part  of  the  country  was 
almoft  defolated  by  the  plague.  Tippoo  Saib  and  his  people,  lately  con- 
quered by  Great  Britain,  were  Mahometans.  Thefe  judgments  have  all 
been  executed  upon  people  of  that  denomination. 


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times,  in  various  parts  of  the  empire,  hath  fwept  away  vafl 
numbers  of  the  inhabitants.  Ruflia  has  made  important 
eonqueils  within  it,  and  greatly  impoveriihed  and  weak- 
ened the  Turks.  The  French,  in  their  invaiion  and  conqueft 
of  Egypt  and  the  adjacent  countries,  have  flain  a  prodig- 
ious number  of  people,  and  feduced  many  others  to  rebel 
and  take  arms  againft  the  empire.  They  are  progreiiing  in 
their  conquefts,  and  threaten  it  with  deftruction.  At  the 
fame  time,  the  rebellion  and  victories  of  PalTawan  Oglou 
are  of  an  afpect  no  lefs  menacing.  In  this  tumult  of  the 
nations  and  wreck  of  empires,  it  is  reasonable  to  expect 
that  the  church  will  experience  days  of  perplexity  and 
danger.  Fortitude,  circumfpection,  patience,  zeal,  prayer- 
fulnei's  and  felf-denial,  will,  therefore,  be  of  the  higheft 
neceliity.  The  language  of  the  Saviour  to  his  church,  at 
this  period,  is,  Behold  I  come  as  a  thief :  Blessed  is  he  that  watch- 
eth  and  keepeth  his  garments,  test  he  walk  naked,  and  they  see  his 
shame. 

To  conclude,  while  I  alk  your  acceptance  of  my  grate- 
ful acknowledgments,  for  all  the  refpect,  kindnefs,  and  fup- 
port  which  I  have  received  from  you,  in  the  courfe  of  my 
miniflry,  with  great  paftoral  affection,  and  delire  for  your 
welfare,  I  wifli  you  a  happy  New  Year.  May  it  indeed,  be 
a  year  of  the  richeft  bleiiings  to  you  and  your  families. 
Especially,  may  it  be  a  year  of  fpiritual  quickening,  peace 
and  falvation  to  all  this  flock,  to  this  town  and  State,  to 
the  United  States,  and  the  whole  Ifrael  of  God.  That  we 
may  enjoy  the  fmiles,  and  abide  under  the  fhadow  of  the 
Almighty,  let  us  remember  his  wonders  of  old.  Let  us  meditate  also 
of  all  his  works,  and  talk  of  his  doings.  Let  the  end  of  years 
and  centuries  remind  us  of  the  end  of  time,  and  of  all 
things;  of  the  judgment  of  the  great  day,  and  the  ineffa- 
ble fcenes  of  eternity:  and  let  us  all  be  prepared  for  them. 
Whoso  is  wise,  and  will  observe  those  things,  even  they  shall  under- 
stand the  loving  kindness  of  the  Lord. 


amen. 


REPORT. 


To  the  Town  of  North  Haven: 

Your  committee  appointed  at  the  annual  town  meeting  in 
1897  to  "consider  the  advisability  of  recognizing  in  a  public  man- 
ner the  arrival  of  the  Twentieth  Century,"  beg  leave  to  report 
that  they  have  attended  to  the  duty  assigned  them,  and  offer  this 


volume  as  evidence. 

Robert  X.  Barnes, 
Robert  O.  Eaton, 
Sheldon  P>.  Thorpe, 


Signed. 


Jared  B.  Bassett, 
Frederic  E.  Jacobs, 
Joseph  Pierpont, 


George  B.  Todd. 


CONTENTS. 


Introduction, 

Town  Officials,    . 

The  Praise  Service,    .         .  .         . 

Century  Sermon.     The  Rev.  William  G.  Lathrop, 

Membership.     Congregational  Church,    . 

Y.  P.  S.  C.  E  ,   . 

Ladies'  Benevolent  Society, 

King's  Daughters,     .. 

"  Happy  Hour  "  Circle, 
Century  Sermon.     The  Rev.  Charles  W.  Jackson, 
Membership.     Union  Baptist  Church, 
"  Ladies'  Aid  Society, 

Workers'  Mission  Band,    . 
Union  Mission  Chapel.     Clintonville, 
Century  Sermon     The  Rev.  Louis  A.  Parsons 
Communicants.     St.  John's  (Episcopal)  Church, 
Membership.     Ladies'  Guild,    .... 

Daughters  of  the  King, 

Brotherhood  St.  Andrew, 
Parishioners.     St.  Mary's  Catholic  Church, 
Building  Statistics,     .... 
The  Bradley  Library, 
Montowese  Literary  Society,    . 
The  W.  C.  T.  U., 
O.  U.  A.  M., 
A.  O.  U.  W., 

Citizens'  Benefit  Association,     . 
Patrons  of  Husbandry, 
F.  &  A.  M 


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CONTENTS. 


Veteran  Soldiers  of  the  Civil  War. 
Public  Schools,    .... 

Post  Offices, 

Twentieth  Century  Concert, 

California  Gold  Hunters,    . 

Clover  Dairy  Farm,    . 

Village  Improvement  Association, 

Peter's  Rock,        .... 

Old  Home  Week, 
Address  of  Welcome.     Hon.  R.  ().  Eaton, 
Historical  Address.     Sheldon  \'>.  Thorpe, 
Collation,      ....... 

Century  Sermcn,  Benjamin  Trumbull    D.D 


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ILLUSTRATIONS. 


PORTRAITS. 

I'AGE 

Andrews,  Dr.  Judson  B., 

99 

Austin,  Andrew  F., 

162 

Barnes,  Herbert,     .... 

1 11 

E.  Henry.        .     .     . 

1 1 1 

R.  N 

34 

Bassett,  Aaron, 

34 

Bidwell,  Dr.  E.  H., 

1 1 1 

Bigelow,  Hon.  H.  B., 

150 

Blakeslee,  Evelyn,  . 

73 

Henry  M.,        .     . 

MS 

Hobart,  .... 

11 

John  H.,      . 

124 

Bradley,  Clara  E  ,  . 

97 

"         Frederic  C. ,  .     .     . 

139 

Brockett,  Charles  A.,   .     . 

141 

"          Ernest  R. ,    . 

9 

• '           Frederic  H., 

3  \ 

Bruce,  Lawrence,    .... 

j  62 

Burke,  Michael  E,       . 

1 03 

Burke,  Michael, 

153 

Clinton,  Anson  B.,       ... 

17 

David  L.,        ... 

124 

Cooper,  George  H  , 

124 

Dickerman,  William  E., 

9 

Eaton,  RobertO.,  .... 

3 

Theophilus 

147 

Elliott,  Whitney,     .     . 

145 

Fowler,  Henry  B.,  .     .     . 

130 

Oswin  H.  D.,       . 

140 

"        Lewis  I  , 

11 

Frost,  Clarence  N.,      .     .     .     . 

9 

Goodyear,  E.  D.  S.,     .     .     .     . 

137 

Robert  B.,       .     .     . 

120 

Hall,  Frank  E 

142 

Harrison,  ElizurC,     . 

124 

Hemingway,  Edgar  A 

142 

Hemingway,  L.  R.,     .     .     .     .  111 

Hyde,  Albert  A., 34 

Jackson,  The  Rev.  C.  W  ,    .     .  43 

Jacobs,  Frederic  E  ,     .     .     .     .  n 

Lathrop,  The  Rev.  W.  G.     .     .  21 

Mrs.  W.  G  ,  .     .     .     .  41 

Leete,  William  P., 123 

Linsley,  Edward  L.,    ...  140 

Romanta  T.,       .     . 

Solomon  F 

Lnsk,  The  Rev.  William,     . 

Mansfield,  Isaac  E  ,     .     .     . 

Marks,  Marcus  D.,       ... 

Nathan  H.,      ... 

Merz,  George  J., 13 

Patton,  D.  Walter,       ....  8 

Parsons,  The  Rev.  L.  A.,     .     .  63 

Pierpont,  Joseph, 71 

Potter,  Hubert  F 71 

Reynolds,  Annie  M.,  ....  122 

The  Rev.  James  B.,  122 

"           John  F 106 

Roberts,  William  B.,   .     .     .     .  13 


13 
S3 
72 

13 

105 

1 1 


Smith,  H.  P. 73 

Stiles,  Pres.  Ezra,   .     .   Frontispiece 

Frank  L., 132 

"        Frederic  H 16 

"        Isaac  L., 9S 

Thorpe,  Arthur  B.,      ....  105 

"         Gardiner  E 142 

Sheldon  B 155 

Todd,  George  B 139 

"       Henry  D 107 

Trumbull,  The  Rev.  Benjamin,  1S6 

Turner,  Charles  N. 107 

Tuttle,  L.  Peet 9 

Warner.  E.  C. 149 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 


207 


RESIDENCES. 

PAGE 

Barnes,  R.  N S6 

Birthplace  Governor  Bigelow,  151 

Bishop,  Mrs.  Ann  E 1S4 

Bradley,  Eri  (homestead),   .  1  - 1 

F.  C  , S9 

BrocksieperSisters  (homestead),  56 

Dickerman    William  E.,  .     .     .  136 

Eaton  Brothers  (homestead),   .  52 

Gillette,  Merton, 93 

Goodyear,  E.  D.  S.,          ...  91 

Dr.  R.  B SS 

Hemingway,  L.  R.,  S5 

Hermitage,     ....          .     .  143 

Leete,  William  P., 93 

Leete  (old  tavern),        ...  172 

Linsley,  E.  L.  (estate),     ...  So 

S.  F.,         "           ...  91 

R.  T 87 

Parsonage.      First  Ecclesiasti- 
cal Society, 3S 

Patton,  D.  W 134 

Pardee,  Edwin  H.,       ....  58 

Phelps,  Penn,  est.  (demolished),  166 

Pierpont,  Edwards  (birthplace),  133 

Joseph, 127 

Potter,  Hubert  F.,  .....     .  S4 

Reynolds,  Rev.  W.  T   (estate),  68 

Roberts,  William  B.,    .     .     .     .  95 

Shepherd,  Mrs   Sarah,     ...  94 

Smith,  H.  P., 31 

•'       John  (demolished),    .     .  166 

Stiles,  Frank  L., 92 

Thorpe,  Dennis  (estate),       .     .  1S1 

Charles  H.,     ....  87 

"         Sheldon  B.,    .     .     .     .  90 

Tuttle,  L.  Peet 36 


CHURCHES,   ETC. 

PAGE 

Baptist  Church,       ....  50 

Catholic  Church,  Hamden,  Si 

Clintonville  Union  Chapel,  .  59 
Congregational  Church  (second 

building), 154 

Congregational   Church    (third 

building) 20 

Congregational  Church  (inter'r)  15 

St.  John's  Church,        ....  62 

Congregational  Church  (1S95),  1S0 

VIEWS,    ETC. 

STREET    SCENES. 

Trolley  car.     Montowese,     .     .  50 
"  Cowles'  Corner,"       ....  75 
Near  Mansfield's  bridge,       .     .  116 
N.  Y.,  N.  H.  &  H.  R    R,  cross- 
ing   169 

Broadway, 205 

VIEWS. 

South  half  old  Green,       ...  32 
North  half  old  Green  and  Cem- 
etery   66 

Old  Cemetery, 66 

Railroad  and  Highway  bridge 

over  Muddy  River,  ....  55 
Mill  dam   and  scenery  on  the 

Muddy  River 60 

Present  Cemetery,        ....  106 

Memorial  Hall, 96 

The  Green, 77 

Quinnipiac  River, 12S 

Old  Mill  on  Muddy  River,    .     .  153 

Peter's  Rock, 144 

Clover  Dairy  Farm,     .     .     .     .  135 

Trumbull  Monument,       .     .     .  160 


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